Alec L. Robitaille 2021-10-27

1. Install Git

   • Windows: https://gitforwindows.org/, details: https://happygitwithr.com/install-git.html#install-git-windows
   • Mac: https://happygitwithr.com/install-git.html#macos
   • Linux: eg. sudo apt-get install git

2. Install a GUI

   • GitHub Desktop: https://desktop.github.com/
   • (optionally) SmartGit: https://www.syntevo.com/smartgit/

3. Install various R packages

   • usethis, devtools, data.table, ggplot2, rmarkdown, palmerpenguins
   • install.packages(c("data.table", "usethis", "devtools", "ggplot2", "rmarkdown", "palmerpenguins"))

4. Say hello to Git

   • https://happygitwithr.com/hello-git.html
   • Note "user.name" is your full name - Alec L. Robitaille
   • and "user.email" is the email associated with your GitHub/GitLab account

Etherpad

• Git documentation

• Pro Git, full free online book

• Happy Git With R

• Software Carpentry: Version Control With Git

• Git section in Efficient R

• Git Best Practices

Developers of Git, R, RStudio, R packages

Jenny Bryan, et al.'s Happy Git With R

Colin Gillespie, Robin Lovelace, et al.'s Efficient R

The Carpentries