.RDS file on remote student repository

[onmorales23]

After completing the push to my remote repository for Assignment 2, I found that the new .RDS file created from the script appears on my local repo but not the remote one. Should this file appear on the remote repo as well?

[btskinner]

Good question.

TL;DR

No, any data that ends up in your data directory will not push to the GitHub repo. All that I care to see for an assignment is what I specifically ask for (e.g., the R script or a Markdown file).

Longer explanation

I've set up your repo to ignore most files in the data directory on purpose using the .gitignore file. Specifically, it's this line:

# ignore all files in /data except those at bottom
data/*

and then later in the script:

# ------------------
# Exceptions
# ------------------

!data/README.md
!data/test_scores.RDS
!data/hsls_small.csv
!data/hsls_small.dta
!data/sch_test
!data/hd2007.csv
!data/ic2007mission.csv
!data/ufl_class_times.csv
!data/els_plans.dta

These are the only files (for now) that will push/pull to the GitHub repo. You don't have them all yet, but will as the course progresses.