Sharing over GitHub

By far, the easiest way to share your creations with fellow R users is over GitHub (github.com). Of course, other R users can also use all the other methods in this chapter, but this is probably the most frictionless method (short of hosting the application) for both you and the end user.

An introduction to Git

You will no doubt have heard of Git (git-scm.com—the version-control system that has collaborative sharing features at GitHub), even if you have never used it. Git is a version-control system that can be used locally on your computer, or in order to get the best out of it, the version-control repository on your computer can be synced online at GitHub. Hosting of open source code at GitHub...