In IBAHCM/RPiR: Reproducible Programming in R

GitHub

Sonia's journey...

2014

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2015

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2016

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2017

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2018 November Viva

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2019

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2020 Covid-19

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2021

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Why did it take so long?

Umm...

- **Git is scary?** - It's a foreign language! branch, head, origin, blame, diff, fork? - Git is for command line experts? - What if I break the repo? and merge conflicts... - **Why is git useful?** - Time travel? - **I'm too busy?** - I've got stuff to do! { width=80% }

Why should you use git / GitHub?

1. Centralized cloud storage of your code

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2. Version control system

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2. Version control system

• Keep track of important versions
• Always have a working version

3. A single point of truth

• Latest version of code
• Previous versions of code (with changes)
• Data
• Project description
• Installation instructions
• Science / notes
• Discussion / ideas
• To do list / tasks

4. Reproducible research

• Makes your code / data available as a single project
• Makes your code / data citable
• Track changes
• Track what went wrong

4. Collaboration {.flexbox .vcenter}

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5. Collaboration

Makes it easier to:

• collaborate
• share your code
• improve your code

Makes your project / data / code:

• easier to find
• easier to install

6. You might need to learn it eventually anyway

• Software developer
• Research software engineer
• Data science

And more?

• Automatically test your code
• Build websites
• Improve your code / learn new skills
• ...

Let's go back to 2014...

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RStudio projects

Why use RStudio projects?

• Helps keep you organised!!!
• When you open a project
• a new R session is loaded
• the working directory is set to the project directory
• ~~.RData is loaded~~
• .Rhistory is loaded
• previous tabs are left open
• other RStudio settings are loaded

Questions?

IBAHCM/RPiR documentation built on Jan. 12, 2023, 7:41 p.m.