Big Data Statistics for R and Python

Course materials for Part I

• See materials/slides for the weekly lecture slides.
• See materials/notes for the weekly lecture notes.
• See materials/sourcecode for the code examples shown in the notes.

Work with Git/GitHub

NOTE: Depending on your operating system, you might have to install Git manually before using it with RStudio. You will find detailed instructions here.

Clone this course's repository

1. In RStudio, navigate to a folder on your hard-disk where you want to have a local copy of this course's GitHub repository.
2. In RStudio, switch to the Terminal, and type the following command.

git clone https://github.com/umatter/BigData.git

This creates a new directory BigData with all the course material in it. Whenever there are some updates to the course's repository on GitHub, you can update your local copy with:

git pull

(Make sure you are in the BigData folder when running git pull.)