[R] Which version control system to learn for managing R projects?

Hadley Wickham hadley at rice.edu
Wed Oct 27 01:03:51 CEST 2010


> 1. What is everyone else using?  The network effect is important since
> you want people to be able to access your repository and you want to
> leverage your knowledge of the version control system for other
> projects' repositories.  To that extent Subversion is the clear choice
> since its used on R-Forge, by R itself and on Google code (Google code
> also supports Mercurial).

There's a bit of a complication that you can use git (and mercurial I
assume) to work with svn repositories, but not vice versa.

Hadley

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