Dear Abhijit,

As in our institute the usage of git/github from within Rstudio was a
specific request from the researchers, we do have a hands-on workshop for
git in Rstudio, see https://inbo.github.io/git-course/course_rstudio.html.

Maybe this could be useful..

regards,
Stijn

2018-03-14 13:39 GMT+01:00 Abhijit Dasgupta <aikidasgu...@gmail.com>:

> Hello,
>
> I am working on a SWC workshop based on R that's coming up, and I had a
> thought. For the R based workshops, we use RStudio, which also has a Git
> interface, and in fact you can initialize and set up git for a project
> through the RStudio Project interface. In fact this is a common workflow
> for R users using RStudio.
>
> While I understand the merits of doing some "bare metal" work on Git so
> that learners can use Git in any environment, for R-based workshops, would
> it make it easier for learners if we concentrated on the RStudio git
> interface, so there's a bit more unification with RStudio being the central
> tool.
>
> There is also a bash-based command-line terminal available in current
> RStudio versions, which could possible also be used for the shell lesson.
>
> A big downside of this is modularity...we would have separate Git and
> Shell lessons for the R-based and Python-based (and other software-based)
> workshops. Strategically for the Carpentries, this might not be a good
> thing.
>
> Throwing this out there, and I'm willing to take leadership developing a
> fully RStudio based workshop if we think this is a worthwhile enterprise.
>
> Regards,
>
> Abhijit Dasgupta
>
> Teach what you know, and figure the rest out
>
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