Set the scope to cover repo and its sub-sections.Give your token a name (“R-studio git” for example).Finally, click > Generate new token (classic) from the top right button.Select > Personal access tokens and then the > Tokens (classic).At the bottom of the next menu, click on > Developer settings.Log into GitHub, navigate to your profile icon, top righ and click on > Settings.This is required to authenticate users from R-Studio with their specific GitHub repo, so code we push from R studio can be securely identified with the developer’s project repository: This is a security feature for using HTTPS to connect your repo to R-Studio. Therefore, we can’t use our GitHub password, but instead a personal access token. Please use a personal access token instead. You will get this error message: Support for password authentication was removed on August 13, 2021. It will now ask us for our GitHub username and password. To sync your local commits to GitHub (online), we then press Push.Make sure to name your commits in a descriptive way. To make a commit locally from R Studio we press the Commit button.To select files to be saved to a Git commit, click the Staged option on Git tab.Once we start adding content to your project in R-Studio the changes will show up here. It is important to remember that Git and GitHub keep track of changes on files, not folders. This is how R-Studio can keep track of our project and files.

The R-Studio Git MenuĪ new Git options menu is now available in R-Studio thanks to version control mode. If you navigate to it, you will see it contains all components of a GitHub Project. This will have created a new folder on you local machine. Remember to tick (Open in new session) option and press Create Project.Paste the HTTPS address in the Repository URL.Choose the third option > Version Control.Now in R-Studio, we start by creating a new project: This is the URL I just copied from the example repo:

Choose HTTPS and click on the copy icon (overlapped squares) on the right side of the URL.

From GitHub, select the Code button on the repo page to display the different cloning options for this project.

In this section we are going to clone our GitHub project into a new project we will create in R-Studio. While we encourage the sharing of code in PUBLIC repositories, please take note of NHS England’s policies on open-source work relating the official NHSE projects:įollowing the steps above, I created a new public repo: Clone Repository into R-Studio

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