Git editor and GUI choice

[DrDrGiveMeTheNews]

Hey y'all, my team and I are all new to GitHub. Do y'all have recommendations for which default editor and GUI to use? We're used to and will be using R(Studio), MPlus, and SAS. We're learning RMarkdown/Quarto, Jupiter, and LaTeX.

[DrDrGiveMeTheNews]

P.S. If y'all have recommendations for how to learn to use GitHub btw, esp. with any free resources, and esp. esp. for using GitHub with R and Quarto, please let me know! :)

[leebrian]

This is a very personal question as it’s going to vary quite a bit. I’ll add that these are my personal ideas and my team varies in the tools it uses. Most use VSCode, but I work with one smart scientist who is trying out vim/neovim.

RStudio has good got integration so if you’re experienced with it you may be most productive sticking with it.

I use git for windows or git as part of Mac’s command line tools. It’s terminal, but the git commands are pretty easy to learn. I like recommending github skills learning lab as they have a set of exercises. Coursera also has many courses, but I don’t have a specific one to recommend.

The GitHub Desktop tool is pretty easy to install and approved for use at CDC but I find it clunkier than the terminal commands. Hope this helps. Please post what works for you.