Creating and Pushing a R-Markdown Document to Github (including graphs)

RMD_and_GitHub.docx

Go to github
  Create new repository [don't need to initialize with the readme (can add later)]
    Go to R Studio
      File -> New Project -> Version Control -> Git
        Ctrl+V  repository URL from GitHub
          File -> New -> Markdown, enter Title, etc.
              In the Markdown window, change "output=html_document" to "output=github_document"
                Knit the document for the first time, will prompt you to save
                  Save as Title.rmd 
In the "git" tab of the R studio Environment window, you will notice that the knit produced:
Title.rproj
Title.rmd
Title.md
Changing output to github_document makes the original .rmd knit to .md so the code can be rendered when pushed to Git.
In the Git window, check the box to stage Title.md [NOT .rmd]
  Click "commit," add comment.
    Click the green arrow to push to GitHub.
      Go to GitHub, refresh the repository, and the markdown document with rendered code will be there

IF YOUR DOCUMENT INCLUDES GRAPHS:
When you knit, a new file will save to the Git window, called Title.docs
When you commit, check the box to stage the .docs in addition to the .md document.
This will commit the graphs as a separate file to the repository, 
although the graphics will automatically pull in to the markdown document when rendered.

Thanks for this post!

Thanks!

Thanks Joshua ! Very helpful !

Thank you so much for this post, Joshua!

I got lost somewhere along the way I think because you have used mac and I have windows.

Thanks a lot Joshua!

Hi Joshua, there is no file at all when I open the Git window; so I got no file to stage. I wonder if you could help me with that. Thanks!

@shangeconnew this may be too late, but the way it worked for me is I configured my git repository on GitHub, then cloned it to the local machine, then I was able to use "git commit" and "git push" commands in the terminal to merge files to that Github repository.

Thank you very much, Joshua.

Thank you so much !

Oh, this seems like so much work in github compared with just using markdown'd R notebook in RStudio and then publishing to Rpubs! But thanks for showing the details of doing a github gist.

@friendly What's the faster alternative to upload to GitHub ? 🤔
I am trying to push to github so I can deploy my R code to github pages.
Thanks @JoshuaTPierce for the instructions. 🎉

Thank you!

nothing appears in ,my repository although I follow all steps... I hate github

Thanks

excellent post! so helpful!

Very helpful! Thanks!

Very useful!

Thanks so much, exactly what I needed!

Fantastic! Thank you very much! Great developers and great Joshua!

Thank you for this. This is exactly what I needed!

so helpful

Any advice on getting latex to render properly?

Tnx. So helpful.

For me, the graphs were stored in Title_files so I just added that instead of .docs. Worked anyway!