minor tweaks

[Auburngrads]

Reading over git-tutorial.Rmd wanted make a few recommendations

1. Didn't see a reference to define an origin for the newly created repo using either https or ssh

• git remote set-url origin https://github.com/username/reponame.git
• git remote set-url origin git@github.com:username/reponame.git

2. For Windows users it's much easier to install git using the installr package

install.packages('installr')
installr::install.git(version = 64)

3. Also, there's no problem using git on windows from the command prompt (just need to make sure that git.exe is on the system's path). This gives the added benefit of using git from within R using shell()

• shell('cd path/to/repo & git add --all & ...')

[bgreenwell]

Towards the last slide we have git remote add origin https... so there shouldn't be any need for using set-url unless they want to change the name later. Also, I did not realize installr could install Git?! Nonetheless, too late to change it now and the installer for Windows is pretty straight forward. Also, setting PATH variables is a nightmare!

Thanks, I'll update it later for using installr to install Git!

[bgreenwell]

Oh, and us Linux users can't use installr :(