I'm a big fan of the work Mine has done through RStudio, DataCamp, and Duke for better workflows in the R ecosystem.
On Wed, Mar 14, 2018, 9:38 AM Cameron Macdonell < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Abhijit, > > > > I was recently at the SIGCSE conference in Baltimore. There was a github > panel of faculty using github in teaching. One of the presenters was a > statistical sciences prof from Duke, Dr. Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel. She said > the RStudio interface was ideal for her mostly non-programming stats > students to get them started on git. > > Her slides are on github here: > > > https://github.com/mine-cetinkaya-rundel/github-class-sigcse-2018/blob/master/well-git-there.pdf > > > > Cam > > > > *From:* Discuss [mailto:[email protected]] *On > Behalf Of *Abhijit Dasgupta > *Sent:* Wednesday, March 14, 2018 7:08 AM > *To:* stijn van hoey <[email protected]> > *Cc:* Software Carpentry Discussion <[email protected]>; > Abhijit Dasgupta <[email protected]> > *Subject:* Re: [Discuss] Git lesson through RStudio? > > > > Nice!! I'm sure I wasn't the only one with this thought :) > > stijn van hoey wrote: > > > Dear Abhijit, > > As in our institute the usage of git/github from within Rstudio was a > specific request from the researchers, we do have a hands-on workshop > for git in Rstudio, see > https://inbo.github.io/git-course/course_rstudio.html. > > Maybe this could be useful.. > > regards, > Stijn > > 2018-03-14 13:39 GMT+01:00 Abhijit Dasgupta <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected] > <[email protected]%20%0b%3cmailto:[email protected]>>>: > > Hello, > > I am working on a SWC workshop based on R that's coming up, and I > had a thought. For the R based workshops, we use RStudio, which > also has a Git interface, and in fact you can initialize and set > up git for a project through the RStudio Project interface. In > fact this is a common workflow for R users using RStudio. > > While I understand the merits of doing some "bare metal" work on > Git so that learners can use Git in any environment, for R-based > workshops, would it make it easier for learners if we concentrated > on the RStudio git interface, so there's a bit more unification > with RStudio being the central tool. > > There is also a bash-based command-line terminal available in > current RStudio versions, which could possible also be used for > the shell lesson. > > A big downside of this is modularity...we would have separate Git > and Shell lessons for the R-based and Python-based (and other > software-based) workshops. Strategically for the Carpentries, this > might not be a good thing. > > Throwing this out there, and I'm willing to take leadership > developing a fully RStudio based workshop if we think this is a > worthwhile enterprise. > > Regards, > > Abhijit Dasgupta > > Teach what you know, and figure the rest out > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected] > <[email protected]>> > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/listinfo/discuss > <http://lists.software-carpentry.org/listinfo/discuss> > >
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