The goal of guideline-data-safety is to demonstrate some helpful ways to keep sensitive information local while sharing the non-sensitive information (i.e., code) online.
.gitignore is a special file used by git. Each line in the ignore file
represents a pattern that git should not track. The video linked below
walks through how you can set up a new project in Rstudio and designate
a location where sensitive data will be stored and ignored by git.
The .Renviron file saves variables that you can access from R using
Sys.getenv(). It is very helpful for accessing passwords and other
secrets you do not wish to put online. The video linked below walks
through an example demonstrating how to add new variables to your
.Renviron file and access them.
