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Collaboration – workflow facilitates work on teams, but teamwork also encourages good workflow, You'll see in the page on File Structure, my projects have a workflow that requires that each collaborator replicate the analysis independently. This allows us to check to make sure that the code is archived and works the same in different environments. Sharing code through a GitHub repository allows each one of us to review and edit the code. Often I find myself adding documentation as I read code written by someone else to make it clearer to me. My collaborators do the same for my code.
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GitHub – GitHub is a location for archiving, sharing, and keeping a version history of your files. There are many introductions to Git and GitHub, but this one is especially good.
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