The purpose of this tutorial is to teach you version control. In order to do this, however, we'll need to make up a simple project that needs controlling!
Our initial project will be extremely simple -- a very small data file and a script that loads and plots it. Later, we'll add code to fit a nonlinear curve to it. (Based on the tutorial at http://www.walkingrandomly.com/?p=5254)
Download this data to your project folder: Example data (right click and use your Web browser's save as functionality. You may need to manually add the file extension ".csv").
Create a new R script in RStudio. File -> New File -> R script
Enter the following commands into your new RScript
mydata = read.csv("example_data.csv")
plot(mydata$xdata,mydata$ydata)
Save the R Script as myscript.R. When you run it, it should load and plot the data.
Your directory should now contain 4 files:
