Web Application Development with R Using Shiny - Second Edition

Using Git and GitHub within Rstudio

To install Git, simply go to the URL mentioned earlier and download the .exe file for Windows, or on Ubuntu, run the following command:

sudo apt-get install git

For other flavors of Linux, check the package management system. Having installed Git, you now need to set up a new project within RStudio. A version control with Git (or SVN, a different version control system, which we will not consider here) is only possible when we use a project within RStudio.

Projects in RStudio

Using projects in RStudio is a way to organize your work. Each project has its own working directory with a separate R session, workspace, console input history, and open editor tabs (among other things). Each time a project is opened, each ...