Week 1

Introduction to workflow using RStudio and Git/GitHub.

Note at minute 39 or so in the video, I show how to clone a GitHub repo using RStudio. However this requires that RStudio knows where git.exe is. For week 2, I changed to cloning using GitHub Desktop, which doesn’t require using Git in RStudio at all. So for the Git/GitHub parts, I would go to the Week 2 video.

Session questions and comments

Here are some shorter videos of the workflows that I showed during Week 1.
- Connecting GitHub Desktop to your GitHub account. Video
- Making a repo on GitHub and getting that into RStudio and GitHub Desktop Video
- Getting a repo on GitHub into RStudio Cloud. Watch the first part of the previous video if you need to see how to create a repo on GitHub. Video
- Connecting Git and RStudio Desktop. You can use Git inside RStudio (I do sometimes) but for 25 to 50% of people there is much suffering going this route while the set-up using GitHub Desktop is fast and easy. Notes, Tutorial, Video overview of the steps.
- Real workflow. This is a quick video of me working on the workshop webpage via RStudio. Videl
- Connecting GitHub and GitKraken. I downloaded GitKraken and this shows how to connect it to GitHub. Video
- Clone a repo from GitHub using GitKraken. Video
- Open a repo on your computer using GitKraken. Video
There was a question about how to get started organizing your code into projects when you have just a bunch of scripts. This lecture from 2020 discusses that. Skip the GitHub stuff at the start.