williamlief/DataVersionControl: Automates version control tracking for data files

This package address the challenge of tracking data files within git. It works by creating multiple versions of datafiles, and updating a text file that records the current version. It is disk space intensive and likely not an appropriate solution for files that are very large and change frequently. The user should first run `make_data_vc()` which will create the tracking file ("data_vc" by default) in the root directory. All subsequent data files should be saved and read using saveRDS_vc and readRDS_vc, these functions behave exactly the same as their base versions, except that they access the "data_vc" file to track the `stamp` prefix and write/read the appropriate file. The default stamp is Sys.Date() and will not track changes within a day, use Sys.time() for more granular tracking. Git commits of changes to "data_vc" will allow the user toreturn to any previous commit of the project and automatically access the data in the state that it existed at that point in the git history.

install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("williamlief/DataVersionControl")