This article was updated on July 7 2018.
Before installing anything I signed up on https://github.com/ and created my R-ANALYTICS repository:
Before installing anything I signed up on https://github.com/ and created my R-ANALYTICS repository:
Now the
installation and setup.
1. I installed git
on Ubuntu, from a terminal window:
$ sudo apt-get
update
$ sudo apt-get
install git
2.- I configured
git:
I did this through
the git config command.
I provided my name
and email address because git embeds this information into each
commit.
Open a terminal and
run:
$ git config
--global user.name "Your Name" --> This is part of your link: https://github.com/LaranIkal, you see, my name is LaranIkal
$ git config
--global user.email "youremail@domain.com"
To see all of the
configuration items just type:
$ git config --list
As a note, it is
saved to a file called ~/.gitconfig in your home folder.
Steps In Rstudio:
1.- Checking/Setting
Rstudio right configuration to use Git/SVN: Menu→Tools→Global
Options
Select GIT/SVN tab
at the end of the below screen shot is the sample.
Now check the
values:
My git executable is
in:
laranikal@Analytics:/usr/bin$
ls -ltr git
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root
root 1866896 oct 4 13:22 git
svn is not there
but, Rstudio ise setup like that and since I am using git, I do not
care about svn.
laranikal@Analytics:/usr/bin$
ls -ltr svn
ls: cannot access
'svn': No such file or directory
On Elementary OS Loki, I got the window below, so everything was done without any additional configuration, the thing is that rstudio detected git automatically:
3.- Now I created my
project:
Note. To import a created project is the same process, it is just that the project files are already created and they are imported into your project folder.
Note. To import a created project is the same process, it is just that the project files are already created and they are imported into your project folder.
On Rstudio go to File→ New Project
The next screen is
showed, select Version Control:
Select git on the
next screen:
Switch to the
browser to get the https address of my project:
Clicking on the
small icon
to the right will copy the address to the clipboard.
Now I pasted it to
my new project repository URL:
The project
directory name was setup automatically after pasting the URL.
The last step was to
browse to the folder I wanted to clone my git repository into and
clicked Create Project button.
Now I created new
files:
Then I committed
them: Menu → Tools → Version Control → Commit
Select the document
to be committed, enter a commit message and click the Commit button
to the right:
This will commit to
the local git repository on the hard drive.
Click close button
on the right up side. And close the commit window.
Now it is needed to
push the changes to git site.
Open a terminal
window in the project local folder, type git push command and press
enter:
After pressing enter
git asks for user and password and, commit changes:
After this I can see
my changes in my git repository on the web browser:
As additional information, I just found this site that may be helpful for the R users:
http://happygitwithr.com
http://happygitwithr.com
Enjoy it!!!.
Carlos Kassab
Carlos Kassab
