Organizing Your Research and Teaching Material with Git and R

The recording from UseR Oslo's meetup 29/10/2020 https://www.meetup.com/Oslo-useR-Grou...

Speaker
Waldir Leoncio Netto. Waldir currently works as a scientific programmer at the Oslo Centre for Biostatistics and Epidemiology (OCBE/UiO). More information about him can be found at https://www.med.uio.no/imb/english/pe...

Abstract
Created to help software developers and extended by a web service that got famous for its collaborative tools, Git ended up getting a reputation for many things that are not directly related to its core purpose: version control. Hence, the idea that it can be a great tool for people who work offline, alone, with other kinds of files ends up flying under the radar for too many people. In this talk, I would like to showcase how Git can be a valuable tool for researchers in general, who often use R for data analysis instead of package development, as well as other tools for the production of presentation documents such as papers and slides.

Get ready!
The speaker strongly believes in learning by doing, so this will be a hands-on seminar. Please install Git on a personal computer you will be using during the seminar. Installation instructions for Linux, macOS and Windows can be found at https://git-scm.com/download/

TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 Introduction.
00:02:11 What Git is and what it isn't.
00:06:52 How to install Git.
00:06:15 Git is text-based software.
00:08:06 Graphical User Interfaces for R.
00:13:45 Git lingo, simplified.
00:15:55 Where on Git are your files?
00:17:05 Organize your screenspace for this seminar.
00:18:27 Initializing a repository.
00:21:18 Adding and committing files.
00:30:36 Undoing changes, file history, tags.
00:40:17 Branching.
00:50:10 Cloning, pulling and pushing 1/2.
00:51:30 Merging.
01:03:52 Ignoring files.
01:06:02 Cloning, pulling and pushing 2/2.
01:07:48 Stashing and popping.
01:17:02 Documentation, tutorials, cheat sheets.
01:19:51 Software used in this presentation.