Have you ever found yourself looking desperately at your RStudio console showing a runtime error? Doesn't it make you think of those wonderful moments a few days ago, where you were happily executing your code?
Have you ever thought "If I just had a time machine, I would go back to those days!"?
Well, what we will show you here is exactly that—a way to add your RStudio project to a time machine.
The name of this time machine is Git, which is a popular version-control system created by Linus Torvald; yes, he is the same guy who created Linux.
The basic rationale behind this kind of software is quite simple: the changes within a script (and actually every kind of file) are stored in commits and all commits are stored in one repository.
In every moment of code development is possible to restore previous commits and get back in time.
Git actually offers a lot more, for example, letting you create branches in your code, to develop and test new features or just fix bugs, and...