ETC5513: Collaborative and Reproducible Practices

Workshop 4

Exercise 1: Adding a new file in a repo

Using the repo from last week, open the .Rproj file to start the RStudio Project.

Tip

If you don’t have an RStudio project from last week’s workshop, create one now.

1. Create a file called week4.qmd. Add the following to the YAML:

   • Title: Learning to reference figures, tables and sections
   • Author: Write your name
   • Todays date
   • Format: HTML

2. Using the command line interface, stage, commit and push the changes to the remote repo.

3. Go to GitHub and inspect your commits in the remote repo.

Exercise 2: Creating a branch

For this exercise, continue working in the same project as in Exercise 1

1. Use the terminal to create a new branch using git branch globaloptions

2. Switch to this branch using git switch globaloptions

3. Refresh your Rstudio to see which branch you are currently working in

4. Switch back to main using git switch main, and check you can see it in RStudio.

5. Switch again back to globaloptions

6. Delete the branch using git branch -d globaloptions. What error do you get?

7. Switch to main and again try to delete globaloptions

8. Re-create global options as in Step 2. Inside the week4.qmd, modify the YAML to include the following options:
   

execute:
    echo: false
    warning: false
    message: false

8. Stage, commit and push the changes to the remote repo in GitHub.

9. Check you can see the new branch on GitHub.

Extension

Merge the branch globaloptions into the main branch.