Version Control Basic

Set Up Git

This exercise and Version Control Basics assignment references the Data Management Review problem. It will not be necessary to complete the Data Management Review exercise for this assignment, though we encourage the review and self-evaluation of your problem solving wizardry.

You’re continuing your analyses of house-elves with Dr. Granger. Unfortunately you weren’t using version control and one day your cat jumped all over your keyboard and managed to replace your analysis code with:

before somehow hitting Ctrl-s and overwriting all of your hard word.

Determined to not let this happen again you’ve committed to using git for version control.

Install Git for your operating system following the setup instructions. Then create a new repo at the Github organization for the class:

1. Navigate to Github in a web browser and login.
2. Click the + at the upper right corner of the page that shows the words Create new... when you hover over it and choose New repository.
3. Choose the class organization (e.g., dcsemester) as the Owner of the repo.
4. Fill in a Repository name that follows the form FirstnameLastname.
5. Select Private.
6. Select Initialize this repository with a README.
7. Click Create Repository.

Next, set up a project for this assignment in RStudio with the following steps:

1. File -> New Project -> New Directory -> Version Control -> Git
2. Navigate to your new Git repo -> Click the Clone or download button -> Click the Copy to clipboard button.
3. Paste the Repository URL:. A suggested Project directory name: should be automatically generated.
4. Choose where to Create project as subdirectory of:.
5. Click Create Project.
6. Check to make sure you have a Git tab in the upper right window.