GitHub is a web based code hosting platform for version control and collaboration.

• code hosting (share R scripts with others)
• version control (record changes to code over time)
• collaboration (work with others on the same code, at the same time)

Learning Resources

GitHub Guides

1. Repository (usually a single project)
   1. folders
      
   2. files
      
   3. images
      
   4. videos
      
   5. spreadsheets
      
   6. data sets

GitHub uses a version control system called Git

• free and open source
• easy to learn
• small and fast

Organizations (ncss-tech)

• A collection of repositories (aqp, soilDB, stats_for_soil_survey)
• Teams and Members (stats-team)
• GitHub Pages (Statistics for Soil Survey)