Resources such as HappyGitWithR and provide detailed setup instructions and interactive tutorials. The RStudio IDE offers Git functionality via a convenient web-based interface (see the “Git” tab), as well as interaction with git via the command-line (via the “Console” tab, or via the “Git” tab’s “More”->“Shell” menu option). While the emphasis is often on collaboration, Git can also be very useful to the solo practitioner. Git and its online extensions like GitHub, Bitbucket, and GitLab are essential tools for data science. So you need git in command line or shell to solve your problem.Roland Stevenson is a data scientist and consultant who may be reached on Linkedin. Project in RStudio is different with git, although project support git as version control tool. RStudio would find this information about git and support your following operation. If you want to connect this repo to your remote github private repo, use this: git remote add origin /.git Now you could use version control locally. Then use this to remove them: git remote rm origin Then just remove the url for remote repo after you cd to your workdir in command line, use the following code to find your remote url(mostly you might fing origin): git remote -v Just register and find your student package. However, as a student, github could support private repo here for you.

Just use git shell to control the version. But version control could be made locally with git only. So for your issue, if you do not want to pay for github for a private repo, all of your code would be public and I don't think it is good before your finally finished your thesis. Rstudio just makes a user interface for git and supplies the function to push the repo into remote server based on git to make version control(not only Github, but also Gitlab). You might connect your local repo to Github account which is based on git by push/pull.

You could use git as local version control tools.

Git, Github and Rstudio are different things.

Rstudio git