Summary: This is not an April Fool's joke ... The R-Podcast is back once again! In this episode, I discuss the concept of version control and how you can get started with using the Git VCS right now with your R projects. Also I discuss a big batch of listener feedback, and highlight a couple of great visualization applications from the community using ggplot2. All of that and more on episode 12 of the R-Podcast! Episode 12 Show Notes The basics for version control and Git Why it's important: Backups and reproducibility Git is available for all major platforms, see GitHub page for installation instructions for all operating systems IDEs RStudio and Eclipse via Egit plugin offer integration of Git for easy usage Key commands: git init, git add file.R, git commit -m "my commit message" Tell Git what files you don't want to be tracked with .gitignore file(s) GitHub and BitBucket are two excellent remote repository host sites Wikipedia article on revision control Pro Git book, with electronic copy available for free! How do you combine revision control with workflow in R R and version control for the solo data analyst Jeremy Anglim's tutorial on Using Git, Egit, Eclipse, and GitHub for version control Win-Vector blog on minimal version control lesson Top 10 Git Tutorials for Beginners Aha moments when learning Git Listener Feedback Daniel provides link to Open Education Database: www.oedb.org/open StatisticsBlog: www.statisticsblog.com Aron: Big data and parallel processing Eric: Questions about data structures Adam: Text mining and workflow Randall offers first donation for the R-Podcast (thanks, Randall!) R Community Roundup Visualization of season performance of NCAA tournament teams by Rodrigo Zamith Plotting lm and glm models with ggplot via strengejacke.wordpress.com Package pick reports: An R package to assist in the workflow of writing academic articles and other reports (via TRinker's blog) How to interact with the show Submit your questions and comments via the R-Podcast contact page, or send an email to theRcast(at)gmail.com Send in an audio comment via audio attachment to theRcast(at)gmail.com, or leave a voicemail on the R-Podcast voicemail hotline: +1-269-849-9780 Get show updates via our Twitter account: @theRcast Follow us on our R-Podcast Google Plus page: gplus.to/thercast Provide your favorite R community links at the R-Podcast subreddit: links.r-podcast.org/ Music Credits The opening theme is entitled "Super Fighting Robot X" by WillRock from the Megaman X: Maverick Rising Album at ocremix.org The closing theme is entitled "Countdown to Infinity" by WillRock from the Megaman X: Maverick Rising Album at ocremix.org
