Week 3: Version control and project management
Kick-starting your week
Tutorial
Laptop required!
- View slides
- Ensure you’ve completed the setup and tutorials from the “preparation material” section
Coaching session
- Continue working on your projects (see coaching #2)
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