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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion 08_install-introduce-self-git.Rmd
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An easy way to get into a shell from RStudio is *Tools > Terminal* or *Tools > Shell*. More about the shell in the Appendix \@ref(shell).

Special Windows gotchas: If you are struggling on Windows, consider there are different types of shell and you might be in the wrong one. Short version: you want to see `MSYS` or `MINGW64` in the status bar, not `cmd.exe`.
Special Windows gotchas: If you are struggling on Windows, consider there are different types of shell and you might be in the wrong one. Short version: you want to see `MSYS` or `MINGW64` in the status bar, not `cmd.exe`. Read more in [the Appendix](#windows-shell-hell).

What user name should you give to Git? This does not have to be your GitHub username, although it can be. Another good option is your actual first name and last name. Your commits will be labelled with this name, so this should be informative to potential collaborators.

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![](img/440px-Bash_screenshot.png)

## Windows is special ... and not in a good way
## Windows is special ... and not in a good way {#windows-shell-hell}

Windows is not the ideal platform for scientific computing and software development. A lot of the functionality is going to feel janky and strapped on. Because it is.

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@Manual{R-bookdown,
title = {bookdown: Authoring Books and Technical Documents with R Markdown},
author = {Yihui Xie},
year = {2017},
note = {R package version 0.5},
year = {2018},
note = {R package version 0.6},
url = {https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=bookdown},
}
@Manual{R-knitr,
title = {knitr: A General-Purpose Package for Dynamic Report Generation in R},
author = {Yihui Xie},
year = {2017},
note = {R package version 1.18.7},
url = {https://yihui.name/knitr/},
year = {2018},
note = {R package version 1.19},
url = {https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=knitr},
}
@Manual{R-rmarkdown,
title = {rmarkdown: Dynamic Documents for R},
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