Excuse me, do you have a moment to talk about version control?

Overview¹

• Identify the value of version control software for data science projects
• Create repositories
• Make commits and synchronize repositories
• Implement collaborative workflows using branches and forks
• Generate pull requests

Before class

Class materials

See the slides.

Additional resources

• Happy Git and GitHub for the useR by Jenny Bryan, the STAT 545 TAs, and Jim Hester - a comprehensive guide to “git”-ing started with Git, GitHub, and R/RStudio. Covers more complicated scenarios and workflows than we have time to cover in this class.

What you need to do after class