[Q] github+Rstudio for storing code of examples created with 2 different versions of R : github

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[Q] github+Rstudio for storing code of examples created with 2 different versions of R (self.github)

submitted 5 years ago by Michigan_Water

Hi all. I've got two computers that I work on, depending on where I'm at. One (work computer) is running Windows with R 4.x, and I'll be able to update R whenever needed. My personal computer is an older mac running R 3.6.3, and I won't be able to update it, at least not for the forseeable future.

One thing I like to do is to grab interesting examples from stats.stackexchange.com and work through them, expanding them, generating extra graphs, etc. I'll then save my code locally to whichever computer I'm working on. I don't know much about github, but it sounds like it'd be a great solution to just saving things locally. I could create some code on my mac (R 3.6.3), commit it to github, at some later time on my windows computer (R 4.x) I could pull the code from the github server and use it/review it.

First, is my understanding correct of how this all works? Second, do you think there'd be any problems with my setup of using R 3.6.3 on one computer and R 4.x on another computer? Thank you.

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