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.
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.
Click top right Home button > Open project > STAT400 > STAT400.Rproj
Click notes/notes.Rproj to open the notes project
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
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”
Check that it worked!
Navigate to https://liberator.stat.colostate.edu
Open “notes” project
Top right click “Git” tab > “Pull”
Share your homeworks project with the instructor and grader.
Click top right Home button > Open project > STAT400 > STAT400.Rproj. Click homeworks/homeworks.Rproj to open the homeworks project.
Click the drop down on the project (top right side) > Share Project…
Click the drop down and add “stat400instructors” to your project.
This is how you receive points for reproducibility on your homework!