Week 2: Version control and project management

Kick-starting your week

• Watch the kick-off for the week!

Tutorial

Laptop required!

• View slides
• Ensure you’ve completed the setup and tutorials from the “preparation material” section

Coaching session

• Start working on coaching #1 activities for the team project

Self-study and activities

• Improve your knowledge about Shell/Bash in this Datacamp tutorial (first chapter only, “manipulating files and directories”)
• Reading: Principles of Project Setup and Workflow Management (30 minutes)
• After-class exercises & tutorial ( View tutorial)

Tips & tricks

• Curious how to use Git with a graphical user interface?
  • Use Git directly from within R - find out how!
  • Another fantastic Git client is Sourcetreeapp, which works on Windows, Mac and Linux!
• Git & Github cheatsheet
• Optional activity: Contributing to an open source web site