Measurement of Biodiversity in R (mobr)

This reposititory hosts an R package that is being developed for estimating biodiversity and the components of its change.

How to contribute to this project

1. Fork the repo to your local GitHub account

2. Clone your forked version of the repo to your machine

git clone git@github.com:your_user_name/mobr.git

3. Link your local repo back to the master on MoBiodiv

git remote add upstream git@github.com:MoBiodiv/mobr.git

4. Create a branch for your changes

git branch new_function

5. Checkout your branch

git checkout new_function

6. Make your commits on that branch and when you are done push it to your forked copy of the repo

git push origin new_function

7. Submit a pull request on the GitHub website by going to your forked copy of the repo and clicking on the pull request button

8. After your changes are merged with master you'll want to merge that update to master with your copies as well.

git pull upstream master
git push origin master
# delete your branch as its no longer needed
git branch -d new_function

Before your start work on the project in the future you'll want to repeat step 8 so that your version of the repo does not become out-of-sync with the main repository.