Using Git and GitHub within Rstudio

To install Git, simply go to the URL mentioned earlier and download the .exe file for Windows, or on Ubuntu, run the following command:

sudo apt-get install git

For other flavors of Linux, check the package management system. Having installed Git, you now need to set up a new project within RStudio. A version control with Git (or SVN, a different version control system, which we will not consider here) is only possible when we use a project within RStudio.

Projects in RStudio

Using projects in RStudio is a way to organize your work. Each project has its own working directory with a separate R session, workspace, console input history, and open editor tabs (among other things). Each time a project is opened, each of these will be set to the value currently associated with the project, in effect launching a new R session, loading the data and console history since the last time the project was used (if they are selected as the default behavior or individually...