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git checkout develop
git pull upstream develop

Now create a feature branch, named after the JIRA issue you're working on, e.g. for issue SYNR-1234:

git checkout -b SYNR-1234

Installing compilation tools (Windows ONLY):

Windows does not have the necesssary tools to build R packages preinstalled so you must download them from http://mirror.fcaglp.unlp.edu.ar/CRAN/bin/windows/Rtools/
You will also need to download the binary for the wget tool from http://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnuwin32/wget-1.11.4-1-bin.zip and extract the executable to the bin folder of your Rtools (default is C:\\Rtools\\bin)

Build the Client and run the test suite

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Sometimes a client feature is developed in concert with a back end change.  Back end changes are deployed to a "staging" version of the server for a week before becoming production. To direct a client to this staging back end do the following:

library(synapseClient)
synSetEndpoints("https://repo-staging.prod.sagebase.org/repo/v1", "https://repo-staging.prod.sagebase.org/auth/v1", "https://repo-staging.prod.sagebase.org/file/v1", "https://portal-staging.prod.sagebase.org")
# now log in, run integration tests, or perform other server interaction
synapseLogin()
synapseClient:::.integrationTest()

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