1. Go to https://github.com and create an account

    • Consider your username, want to be identifiable, professional and probably include your actual name. Do you have other handles? Twitter?

    • Don’t worry about paying for a plan now, stick with the free one.

  2. Login to https://liberator.stat.colostate.edu

    • UN/PW is available to you as a comment on the most recent “assignment” on Canvas

    • Consider saving your PW in the browser. You cannot change your passwords at this moment.

  3. Click top right Home button > Open project > STAT400 > STAT400.Rproj

  4. Click notes/notes.Rproj to open the notes project

  5. Setup liberator to work with GitHub

    • Click Tools > Global Options > Git/SVN

    • Click “Create RSA Key”

    • Leave “Passphrase” blank

    • Click “View Public Key”, and Copy it to your clipboard

  6. Tell GitHub to expect connections from Liberator

    • In a Web Browser, navigate to https://github.com

    • Click top right, your user icon dropdown > Settings

    • Click SSH and GPG keys > New SSH key

    • Paste your copied Public Key in the “Key” box and title it “liberator”

    • Click “Add SSH Key”

  7. Check that it worked!

  8. Share your homeworks project with the instructor and grader.

    1. Click top right Home button > Open project > STAT400 > STAT400.Rproj. Click homeworks/homeworks.Rproj to open the homeworks project.

    2. Click the drop down on the project (top right side) > Share Project…

    3. Click the drop down and add “stat400instructors” to your project.

    This is how you receive points for reproducibility on your homework!