[XJTLU HES Workshop] Git: a Collabration Platform

Installation

• Git
• R language
• RStudio IDE

What is Git & GitHub

• Slides 1
• Slides 2

Use Git locally

• RStudio -> File -> New Project -> New Directory -> New Project ->Create a git repository

• For the first time of using git, run (in terminal):

git config --global user.name "Your Name"
git config --global user.email "Your_email@xjtlu.edu.cn"

• roll back to a previous version

git reset --hard HEAD~1

What can we do with GitHub

• Co-write a book
• Build a website
• Develop an R package

Further reading

• How to Use Git/GitHub with R