11  Setting up Git

Since Git has already been covered in the previous workshops, we won’t cover learning it during this workshop. However, since version control is a fundamental component of any modern data analysis workflow and should be used, we will be using it throughout the workshop. If you have used or currently use Git and GitHub, you can skip these two tasks. If you have not used Git or GitHub, please do these tasks:

  1. Type in the RStudio Console and follow the instructions:

    Console
    # There will be a pop-up to type in your name (first and
# last), as well as your email
r3::setup_git_config()

  2. Please ONLY read through the Version Control lesson of the introduction workshop, but DO NOT DO any coding tasks or exercises. You are welcome to do them if it will help you learn or understand it better, but it is NOT required. For most of the workshop, we will be using Git as shown in the Using Git in RStudio section. During the workshop, we will connect our projects to GitHub, which is described below.

Regardless of whether you’ve done the steps above or not, everyone needs to run:

Console
r3::check_setup()

The output you’ll get for success will look something like this:

Checking R version:
✔ Your R is at the latest version of 4.4.2
Checking RStudio version:
✔ Your RStudio is at the latest version of v2024.09.1+394
Checking Git config settings:
✔ Your Git configuration is all setup!
  Git now knows that:
  - Your name is 'Luke W. Johnston'
  - Your email is 'lwjohnst@gmail.com'

Eventually you will need to copy and paste the output into one of the survey questions.