Setting up your system

This workshop explains how to set up your Widows or Mac system to develop version controlled package with git, devtools, RStudio and GitHub

Learning Objectives

At the end of this module the successful learner will be able to:

• list and install the programs and packages required for version controlled package development with devtools in RStudio
• check these are available to RStudio
• edit their .Rprofile to ensure devtools is loaded
• configure git for use, initialise an RStudio project as a git repo
• authorise and link to a github repo

Prerequisites

You need to have:

• "Packages in a nutshell" or equivalent experience
• git installed
• a GitHub account

About R Forwards

R Forwards is an R Foundation task force that was originally set up in December 2015 to address the underrepresentation of women in the R community. An analysis of CRAN package maintainers estimated that fewer than 15% were women, and a useR! participant survey found that women were less likely than men to have experience contributing to or writing packages. In 2017 it was rebranded to accommodate other under-represented groups such as LGBTQI, minority ethnic groups, and people with disabilities.

Forwards have delivered face-to-face one-day workshops in Package development, supported by a grant from the R Consortium, for several years. These are heavily based on the R packages book by Hadley Wickham and Jenny Bryan. Recently we have been modularising our workshop materials to increase our reach by developing and delivering approximately one hour workshops suitable for online delivery and easy reuse by others.

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