Best Versioning System for R [closed]

Question

I have a plethora of both short and long pieces of R code that I would like to track as they evolve.

Does anyone have any recommendation or experience using version-control software with R?

Answer 1

Use

• whatever your colleagues, friends, ... use --- most systems are technically equivalent and you want to foster rather than hinder collaboration

• whatever is supported in the editor or IDE you use most

so as ever so often it comes down to network effects --- popular choices create more users which creates more support in tools etc.

R itself does not care. Source code is just text. Personally, I like SVN a lot and use it at home, at work, at R-Forge, on Google Code, on Sourceforge, ... R Core also uses SVN but as I said, it does not really matter. Your choice, your headaches when you need to admin or fix things.