With the excellent `devtools’ package, it is very easy to install R packages that are hosted on guthub from within R.It serves as an off site backup of your precious code. ![]() It is an appealing place to host an `in-development’ R package since: This enables the developer to easily revert back to a previous version of their code, should something go wrong. Github is web-hosted platform for sharing projects developed with the git versioning system (in particular this allows multiple developers to contribute to the same project, though that is generally beyond the scope of my work). These integrate into software projects to, among other things, record incremental changes at developer-chosen milestones. Git is a `versioning’ or `revision control’ system.
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