Download, Revise, Upload Github Gists with R

Question

I often find myself writing my R code in Rstudio and manually copying/pasting the code to a gist at gist.github.com.

I think Rstudio is great and they recently incorporated version control capabilities. I haven't quite graduated to this level just yet, but I am hoping that I could link my github account and manage my gists in the same way. This would remove the manual actions that I take to save and retrieve my code snippets.

The key is that I want to be able to access my code across multiple locations and need to keep some of my code private.

Is this possible? Any help is greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

In regard to the private repos I think github only supports private repositories for paying users. If you want free private repositories, you could take a look at bitbucket which supports both Mercurial and Git repositories.