Git is easy to learn although it can take a lot to. There are already plenty of guides that explain the particular steps of getting git and github going on your mac in detail. If you have no idea what im talking about, think of your hosting service as dropbox but much, much better. There is an updated version of this post for os x 10. All slide content and descriptions are owned by their creators. Jenny understands the importance of her job but also knows how the edit will work and when to let things go. Never shy to speak up but also aware of when to back down. Apr 12, 2016 this is a follow up post to the previous one about how to analyze github issue data with github rest api. Before we do the setup configuration, let me take a moment to talk about what git and github are. Sign up for your own profile on github, the best place to host code, manage projects, and build software alongside 40 million developers. Women are excellent coders, according to github research. Jenny bryan, carlos anderson, bernhard konrad, justin ely, victor ng, jonah duckles what. This means you can manage local git repositories stored on your mac using the same familiar features on github. How to use git and github with r projects infoworld.
This basically brings the git repository management features from github down into a standalone mac application. Chapter 4 github introduction to open data science. Dec 11, 2017 jenny bryan offered a detailed explanation for this, as well as some fixes, in her tidyverse blog post. Download the latest versions of the best mac apps at safe and trusted macupdate. I strongly recommend reading these setup instructions by jenny bryan for macwindowslinux and the troubleshooting section. Contribute to bryanmacfarlanedevmacos development by creating an account on github.
Several free and commercial gui tools are available for the mac platform. A number of the book chapters and other resources we are reading were written by hadley wickham, danielle navarro, jenny bryan, jim hester, kieran healy, and andy fields. Now that you have downloaded git, its time to start using it. Aug, 2019 if you have trouble with these setup steps, i highly recommend checking out happy git and github for the user at by jenny bryan and jim hester. Happy git and github for the user by jennifer bryan is licensed under a creative commons. Open the git bash program windows or the terminal mac and type the. Presentations by jennifer jenny bryan speaker deck. Im not going to reinvent the excellent wheel that she has already invented, so im only going to summarize her advice here. Using git and github with r, rstudio, and r markdown. Stat 545 at ubc by jenny bryan advanced r by hadley wickham. Using version control for package development means that you can easily revert to previous package versions, collaborate with multiple developers, and record reasons for the changes that are made. Today, well interface with github from our local computers using rstudio.
Reproducible workflow and version control with git and github. Mar 18, 2018 jenny bryan is probably the first very high profile ruser i know whos been actively highlighting the importance of things that not many people talk about. This website is hosted on github and holds all the practical instructions and data. Github for data scientists without the terminal sahir bhatnagar. She proposes the very concise herehere but other methods are available such as the template or the projecttemplate packages. Get a personal access token from and make it available in r sessions. For example, the git and github content of stat 545 eventually grew into its. A knowledgeable git community is available to answer your questions. It also offers integration with local nongithub git repositories. Git allows groups of people to work on the same documents often code at the same time, and without stepping on each others toes. Jenny bryan, a professor of statistics and her profile makes clear that she is a woman. The uk mac page contains a selection of miniapps, developed as part of collaborations with a number of uk based institutions.
Thanks to alyssa frazee for helping create the homework problem that became the recommendation systems chapter and to amanda cox for providing the. Jenny bryan has a fantastic online book happy git and. Our goal is to help scientists and engineers become more productive by teaching them basic computing skills like program design, version control, testing, and task automation. Jenny bryan offers a helpful tutorial for the r user. If your repository at github is private then you need to get authenticated before accessing. Now that youve got git and github set up on your mac, its time to learn how to use them. Several of the tutorials we are working through are from a course that was taught by dale barr and lisa debruine.
Cloverleaf was the first of our miniapps and was included in the mantevo 1. Not happy with windows version of githubs git client hard to connect to rstudio. Thanks to peter aldhous from whom i borrowed ideas for the principles of data visualization section and jenny bryan for writing happy git and github for the user, which influenced our git chapters. Dive into the pro git book and learn at your own pace. Prime hints for running a data project in r github pages. If you also have the repository stored on github you can of course sync between the two. Jun 23, 2011 yesterday github for mac was announced by the good folks over at github. If youre new to github, check out the extremely excellent materials available in jenny bryans course at ubc.
Datacamp is another great place to start learning online. There are many other ways to interact with github, including githubs desktop app or the command line here is jenny bryans list of git clients, but today we are going to work from rstudio. It also offers integration with local non github git repositories. If you have no idea what im talking about, think of it as dropbox but much, much better.
Before we break, we are going to set up git and github which we will be using along with r and rstudio for the rest of the workshop. See youtube video for installing r, rstudio and rmarkdown at download r from download rstudio desktop. Happy git and github for the user by jennifer bryan is licensed under a creative commons attributionnoncommercial 4. They provide a home for your gitbased projects on the internet. Also delivered elsewhere, such as the first mexican statistical association school in data science by jenny bryan twitter. The main author, jenny bryan, developed this version of stat.
In this twoday bootcamp, short tutorials will alternate with hands. Github is an excellent site and a powerful tool that can make life so much easier. If you have trouble with these setup steps, i highly recommend checking out happy git and github for the user at by jenny bryan and jim hester. For advanced users, i strongly recommend pablos fall 2017 usc measurement models and statistical computing course, benjamin soltoffs u of chicago computing for the social sciences course or jenny bryans u of british columbia stat 545 course. Sign in sign up instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
Download git if using a mac, may already be installed set up a github account. Developed by hadley wickham, jennifer bryan, rstudio. Open the git bash program windows or the terminal mac and type the following. Welcome to the casa0005 geographic information systems and science online pratical handbook. To ensure reproducibility within a stable working directory tree. Jenny understands the importance of her job but also knows how the edit. Film is a collaborative art and takes a lot of communication and compromise. Version control is a tool that allows you to keep track of changes to a number of files. A convenient way to get the tools needed for compilation is to install xcode. While the steps below should still work, i recommend checking out the new guide if you are running 10. This workshop is hosted by the sib swiss institute of bioinformatics and the institute of molecular life sciences at the university of zurich uzh data carpentry workshops are for any researcher who has data they want to analyze, and no prior computational experience is required.
As industry expert jenny bryan explains in her white paper. We will use github to host the source files of our r package. Extract data from private github repository with rest api. Easy going, a people person and an editors script supervisor. Happy git and github for the user jennifer jenny bryan.
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