The first thing you need to do is copy the Clone URL for your repo from the github website - click the green button in your repo for ‘Clone or Download’ and copy the link:.There are a couple of ways of doing this, but the easy one is to use the GUI that comes packaged with your git installation. Now you have created your repo online, you need to ‘clone’ it so that there is an identical copy of it in a local folder on your computer. GitHub is an online repository that allows anyone to view the code you have produced (in whatever language you choose to program in) and use/scrutinise/contribute to/comment on it. Git is a software version control system which allows you to keep track of the code you produce and the changes that you or others make to it. For more information on RMarkdown look here. RMarkdown is a version of the Markdown markup language which enables plain text to be formatted to contain links to data, code to run, text to explain what you a producing and metadata to tell your software what kinds of outputs to generate from your markdown code. RStudio is a graphical user interface (that you should already be familiar with) - it contains a number of features which make it excellent for authoring reproducible and open geographic data science work. As more and more researchers and organisations publish assocaited code with their manusripts or documents it’s very imporant to become adept at using these tools. In this practical you will learn how to produce work that is open, reproducible, shareable and portable using RStudio, RMarkdown, Git and GitHub.
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