Developments in 2012 - erex/from-asus GitHub Wiki

There are two particular developments that facilitate the use of github for everyday use:

RStudio 0.95 and above

RStudio now supports versioning and is github aware according to this note on their website:

Version control is an indispensable tool for coordinating the work of teams and also has many benefits for individual work. To use version control with RStudio, you should first ensure that you have installed Git and/or Subversion (details below). Next, you should become familiar with using RStudio Projects (which are required for version control features to be enabled).

knitr Package in R

This package provides much more powerful and flexible report generation. It allows for the creation not only of Latex PDF documents, but also HTML (markdown) documents. Details can be found by following this link.

I suggest that knitr will become a much more popular than sweave.

I should also mention that I would like to get students using github for code development in 2013.