Re: [Discuss] Git lesson through RStudio?

2018-03-18 Thread Stéphane Guillou
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Re: [Discuss] Git lesson through RStudio?

2018-03-15 Thread Carrie Brown
mail.com>> Sent: 14 March 2018 15:32 To: discuss@lists.software-carpentry.org<mailto:discuss@lists.software-carpentry.org> Subject: Re: [Discuss] Git lesson through RStudio? Hi All, while I understand the attraction of minimising the number of systems and UIs used in a workshop, I thin

Re: [Discuss] Git lesson through RStudio?

2018-03-15 Thread Ben Bolker
Agree with previous comments. A couple of points: - I always make a point of emphasizing that learners should install the *newest* version of R/RStudio before the workshop (and should check with me if they can't for some reason); this minimizes problems. - See Jenny Bryan's excellent

Re: [Discuss] Git lesson through RStudio?

2018-03-15 Thread stijn van hoey
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

Re: [Discuss] Git lesson through RStudio?

2018-03-14 Thread Naupaka Zimmerman
. cheers, mike From: Discuss <discuss-boun...@lists.software-carpentry.org> on behalf of Jan T Kim <jtt...@googlemail.com> Sent: 14 March 2018 15:32 To: discuss@lists.software-carpentry.org Subject: Re: [Discuss] Git lesson through RStudio? Hi A

Re: [Discuss] Git lesson through RStudio?

2018-03-14 Thread JACKSON Michael
oun...@lists.software-carpentry.org> on behalf of Jan T Kim <jtt...@googlemail.com> Sent: 14 March 2018 15:32 To: discuss@lists.software-carpentry.org Subject: Re: [Discuss] Git lesson through RStudio? Hi All, while I understand the attraction of minimising the number of systems and UIs used in a

Re: [Discuss] Git lesson through RStudio?

2018-03-14 Thread Abhijit Dasgupta
Thanks for the feedback! One of the reasons RStudio is attractive is that the workshop becomes immersive and unified in one IDE. The git interface is pretty good, and merge conflicts are dealt with much as a standard text editor would, so standard but nothing as nice as Atom. For beginners, and

Re: [Discuss] Git lesson through RStudio?

2018-03-14 Thread Raniere Silva
Hi Abhijit, The Software Carpentry "bylaws" only mentioned that you must teach a version control system. It could be Git, Mercurial, SVN or another one. In terms of learners experience during the lesson, I was helping on a web development workshop and I noticed that different users had

Re: [Discuss] Git lesson through RStudio?

2018-03-14 Thread Abhijit Dasgupta
t; *Sent:* Wednesday, March 14, 2018 7:08 AM > *To:* stijn van hoey <stijnvanh...@gmail.com> > *Cc:* Software Carpentry Discussion <discuss@lists.software-carpentry.org>; > Abhijit Dasgupta <dasgu...@mail.nih.gov> > *Subject:* Re: [Discuss] Git lesson through RStu

Re: [Discuss] Git lesson through RStudio?

2018-03-14 Thread Cameron Macdonell
14, 2018 7:08 AM To: stijn van hoey <stijnvanh...@gmail.com> Cc: Software Carpentry Discussion <discuss@lists.software-carpentry.org>; Abhijit Dasgupta <dasgu...@mail.nih.gov> Subject: Re: [Discuss] Git lesson through RStudio? Nice!! I'm sure I wasn't the only one with this tho

Re: [Discuss] Git lesson through RStudio?

2018-03-14 Thread Abhijit Dasgupta
Nice!! I'm sure I wasn't the only one with this thought :) stijn van hoey wrote: 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

[Discuss] Git lesson through RStudio?

2018-03-14 Thread Abhijit Dasgupta
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