In short, Github is a web-based platform used for version control. It is helpful when more than just one person is working on a project. For the purposes of our project, all changes can be made using the website version of Github.
A repository (usually abbreviated to “repo”) is a location where all the files for a particular project are stored. Each project has its own repo, and you can access it with a unique URL.
For the purposes of our Github, we will have the following repos (this list can be updated as we have identified working groups) :
Workstream leads will be listed here
For now, you can explore the online version. If you are interested, you can explore more about Git & Github and how to use it with R here.