Add a page about using git/github with Rstudio

kbroman · kbroman · commit ea461daf5a9a · 2013-10-10T21:55:52.000-05:00
diff --git a/index.md b/index.md
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ minimal guide to get started.
 - [Exploring the code and its history](pages/exploring_code.html):
   tag, diff
 - [Branching and merging](pages/branching.html).
+- [Git/github with RStudio](pages/rstudio.html)
 - [Other (much more thorough) resources](pages/resources.html).
 
 I love git and github.  I use both for keeping track of programming
diff --git a/pages/rstudio.md b/pages/rstudio.md
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+---
+layout: page
+title: git/github with RStudio
+---
+
+[RStudio](http://www.rstudio.com/ide) is a popular development
+environment for [R](http://www.r-project.org). 
+
+RStudio has built-in facilities for [knitr](http://yihui.name/knitr/)
+(the superb successor to [Sweave](http://www.stat.uni-muenchen.de/~leisch/Sweave/)) and [Rmarkdown](http://www.rstudio.com/ide/docs/r_markdown) (a
+variant of
+[Markdown](http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax)), which
+are highly recommended for writing data analysis reports.
+
+And RStudio has built-in facilities for [git](http://git-scm.com/) and
+[GitHub](http://www.github.com).  See
+[this document on how to use version control with RStudio](http://www.rstudio.com/ide/docs/version_control/overview). It's
+pretty straightforward.
+
+Basically, in RStudio you want to create a Project
+([described further here](http://www.rstudio.com/ide/docs/using/projects)),
+which is basically a directory with some special files to describe
+project-specific RStudio options. This Project will be your git
+repository. Or you can easily make a current git repository into an
+RStudio Project. And then you can use items in the menu bar to commit
+changes and push or pull from GitHub.
