Use it to verify the user as which you are logged into the system. Whoami prints the effective user id i.e. the name of the user who runs the command. We have listed more references at the end of the tutorial for the benefit of the readers. Software Carpentry too has a lesson on shell.

If you want a deeper understanding of using command line for data science, we suggest you read Data Science at the Command Line.

executing shell commands from R using system2() or processx::run().

Apart from learning shell commands, the tutorial will also focus on Our goal was to ensure that after completing this tutorial, readers should be able to use the shell for version control, managing cloud services (like deploying your own shiny server etc.), execute commands in R & RMarkdown and execute R scripts in the shell. We have created a RStudio Cloud Project to ensure that all readers are using the same environment while going through the tutorial.

We have selected a set of commands we think will be useful in general to a wide range of audience. In this tutorial, you will be introduced to the command line.

Windows terminal commands ls