Week 02

Version Control, Workflow and Reproducibility: Or a bit of Git & GitHub

Lecture Notes

• Version Control, Workflow and Reproducibility: Or a bit of Git & GitHub: html, notebook

Slides

Version Control, Workflow and Reproducibility: Or a bit of Git & GitHub

Practice Exercises

Link for practice exercise: https://classroom.github.com/a/epMgGVTy

• Solutions

Readings

Required Readings

• The Plain Person’s Guide to Plain Text Social Science - Healy, Kieran

  • Ch. 1: Introduction;

  • Ch. 2: Keep a Record;

  • Ch. 3: Write and Edit;

  • Ch. 4: Reproduce Work.

• Pro Git - Chacon & Straub

  • Ch. 1: Getting Started; Read 1.1 - 1.3

  • Ch. 2: Git Basics; Only read 2.1 - 2.5

  • Ch. 3: Git Branching

Additional Resources and Suggested Materials

• More on Git/Github in Pro Git:

  • Read 1.4 - 1.7 for help on installation and commandline

  • Read Ch. 6 for more information regarding Git + Github.

• Ch. 13 Detect Git from RStudio -Happy Git with R - Bryan, Jenny & Jim Hester