Git and GitHub for R Users

In this workshop, attendees will learn how to use GitHub in conjunction with RStudio.

Contents

• Understand why version control is necessary and useful.
• Be able to collaborate on code using Git and GitHub from RStudio.
• Edit code, track changes, and review code using GitHub.

Target Audience

• You’re (reasonably) comfortable writing R code to do some analysis but…
• Your scripts are getting longer and longer
• There are R scripts everywhere
• You don’t want other people to see the code you’ve written because it’s all a bit of a mess!
• You don’t have any experience of Git or GitHub but you’d like to get started.

Prerequisites

• Basic knowledge of R (including know what R projects are) and RStudio.

Zoom link will be provided closer to the event.