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Using Git and GitHub with R

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  1. Welcome, Logistics, Course Materials, and Additional Resources
  2. Introduction to Git and GitHub
    What is Git? What is GitHub?
  3. Why Should You Learn to Use Git and GitHub?
  4. Update Everything
  5. Git
    Install Git
  6. Configure Git
  7. Create a Local Git Repository
  8. Commits
  9. Commit History
  10. GitHub
    GitHub Repositories
  11. Connect RStudio and GitHub
  12. Push an RStudio Project to a GitHub Repository
  13. Pull a GitHub Repository to an RStudio Project
  14. Keep RStudio and GitHub in Sync
  15. Collaborating with Git and GitHub
    Why Use GitHub vs Dropbox, Google Drive, Box, etc?
  16. Dealing with Common Problems: Can't Pull Code from GitHub
  17. Dealing with Common Problems: Merge Conflicts
  18. Dealing with Common Problems: Can't Push Code to GitHub
  19. Let's Keep Bad Things from Happening in the First Place
  20. Branches
    What are Branches and Why Should We Use Them?
  21. Branch Names
  22. How to Create Branches
  23. Using Pull Requests to Merge a Branch Into Main
  24. Project Management with GitHub
    GitHub Issues
  25. How to Organize Issues
  26. Wrapping Up
    Other Cool Stuff You Can Do with GitHub
Using Git and GitHub with R What is Git? What is GitHub?
Lesson 2 of 26
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What is Git? What is GitHub?

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The best resource I’ve found for understanding Git and GitHub comes from this 2016 talk (slides here) by Alice Bartlett of the Financial Times (hat tip to Garrick Aden-Buie of RStudio for telling me about it).

This article by Allison Horst and Julie Lowndes uses some really cute illustrations to discuss the benefits of using Git and GitHub.

I’ve also collected a set of the best Git/GitHub learning materials on the R for the Rest of Us resources page. I’ll refer to several of these individually in later lessons.

Have any questions? Put them below and we will help you out!