First steps on Git using R-Studio and GitHub
Details
This R-Ladies Tbilisi meetup is happy to welcome Elisa Schneider (see bio below)! During this workshop we will introduce the concept of version control using Git, RStudio and GitHub. We will learn the basic Git commands and how to use them directly from R-Studio. Elisa Schneider will show how to link your R-Projects with GitHub to create online repositories to share your work and how it can be used for collaboration. At the end she will do a short demo on uploading a small WebPage to Github such as the one from R-Ladies Seattle https://github.com/rladies-seattle/rladies-seattle-organizing. If we have enough time she will introduce other possibilities such as GitHub Webpages like this one: https://kyla-mcconnell.github.io/website/index.html.
If you have some time to prepare before the Meetup, Elisa recommends to:
· create a GitHub account (if you do not have one yet) on https://github.com/
· download and install Git from https://git-scm.com/
For the last part of the meetup some very basic knowledge of markdown/Rmarkdown is recommended, but not mandatory, we will also go through it. If you want, you can have a look at the first 35 minutes of this video about RMarkdown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H91WSwALx1A
Bio
Elisa Schneider comes from Argentina. She studied Biology and also got a degree on Science Education. She specialized in Remote Sensing data analysis and Geographic Information Systems (GIS). She practiced as environmental assessment consultant and also taught cartography and GIS for park rangers. Thanks to a scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service she was able to complete a master on Environmental Modeling in 2019, at the University of Freiburg. Since then she has been working on the Forest Reaserch Institute of Baden-Württemberg, Germany evaluating forest health from remote sensing data, modeling species distribution and outbreaks of pest insects under climate change. In 2019 she joined R-Ladies Freiburg as a Co-Organizer.