Marc is exactly right about people having strong opinions. R-forge is really the _only_ reason to consider using svn.
git is where the world is headed. This video is a little old: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8, but does a good job getting the point across. Hg is a good alternative, but definitely give git the first look. -Whit On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Marc Schwartz <marc_schwa...@me.com> wrote: > On Oct 26, 2010, at 11:22 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > >> On 26/10/2010 12:16 PM, Tal Galili wrote: >>> Hello all, >>> >>> I wish to learn a version control system for managing my R (data analysis) >>> projects. >>> >>> I know of SVN and github, and wonder if there is any reason for which I >>> should prefer the one over the other (or any other platform). An example for >>> a reason could be if it will make it easier for me to later work with >>> R-forge or CRAN or any other platform for R code distribution. >> >> R mainly uses svn so that might be an advantage. On the other hand, git is >> newer and has some nice features. >> >> Duncan Murdoch > > > Tal, > > As Duncan notes, both R and R-Forge use svn, so that is something to consider > for ease of interaction (more so with R-Forge, since R's svn is read only for > us). I have used svn on both Linux and OSX for a number of years and it works > well for me. There are also GUI's available for it (both stand alone > applications and browser based) on the three common OS's, if you prefer that > approach to using the CLI. > > On the other hand, you are likely to get as many strong opinions on this > question as you would if you had asked folks to name their preferred editor > for R, even (especially?) if you limited the choices to Emacs and Vim... ;-) > > Regards, > > Marc Schwartz > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
