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Dev System Setup for Linux/mac or Windows with WSL

Note: for a Windows setup without WSL see this gist

Install Windows Subsystem for Linux, Ubuntu

See also Windows Subsystem for Linux Installation Guide for Windows 10

1. Open PowerShell as Administrator and run the following. Restart when instructed:

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Dev Environment on Windows (without WSL)

These are some notes for setting up a development system on Windows without using Windows Subsystem Linux (WSL). Setting up WSL is also sometimes valuable, but in some cases it can be slow or otherwise undesirable, so having a setup that only uses Windows is handy. In fact, I rarely use WSL at all anymore.

This currently focuses on setting up a proper shell built on top of Windows Powershell and Windows Terminal (or Cmder) and then setting up Python and

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R Setup in VS Code for macOS/Win10

First, if you want to use RStudio, there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with that. However, if you already use VS Code for C/C++, Javascript, Python, Ruby, Markdown, text files, and everything else, it makes sense to also use it for R.

This should basically work for both Win10 and macOS. Your projects (stored in a version control system, of course) should be portable between the two. The use of renv keeps the package