USSC analysis for 2020 primaries

Instructions for cloning the repository to your local machine

1. Head to the primaries folder on your local machine in Terminal.
2. Type (or copy) git clone https://github.com/usstudiescentre/election2020.git

Instructions for pushing and pulling data from GitHub:

1. To pull data from GitHub, open Terminal and find the primaries folder on your local machine. Type git pull to download any changes added to the remote repository to your local copy. If there are no changes, your terminal should display the following message: Already up to date. If there are any changes, the edited files will be noted in a list. Make sure to do this before every session.

2. To push data from your local machine, run the following commands:

• git add specificfile.R OR git add . if you want to add all files in the repository
• git commit -m 'This should be an informative message - edits to specificfile.R for blah blah'
• git push origin

Instructions for switching branches on GitHub:

Sometimes you want to work from another branch in the remote repository -- say a branch called dev instead of master. To do this, create the new branch on GitHub then inside your Terminal window type git checkout dev. All pulling and pushing will go to the new branch and won't affect the master branch. This is useful when master is used for production purposes. To check which branch you are working in, run git branch and you will get a list of all branches associated with the repo; the one in use will be highlighted.