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
>
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