Sharing your Notebook through a public server

Currently there is one hosting company that allows you to host your Notebooks for free: GitHub. GitHub is the standard web provider for source control (GIT source control) systems. Source control is used to maintain historical versions of your files to allow you to retrace your steps.

GitHub's implementation includes all the tools that you need to use in your Notebook, already installed on the server. For example, to use R programming in your Notebook, you would have had to install the R tool set on your machine and possibly some of the packages used by your script. But GitHub has already done all of these steps.

How to do it...

1. In order to host your Notebook on GitHub, go to the GitHub website and sign up for a free website.
2. Once logged in you are provided with a website that can be added to. If you have development tools to use (git push commands are programmer commands to store files on a git server) you can do that or simply drag and drop your...