Hello, I wanted to flag a challenge I have had in preparing for next week's workshop.
The shortest version of the story is that I am unable to "click the Git tab" in RStudio as directed in section 12.4 of the instructions as there is no Git tab in my RStudio.
The longer version is that I wonder if it has something to do with my network security on my computer. I had no issues with the setting up as per the pre-workshop instructions through to "Prove local Git can talk to GitHub" which is where I ended on Wednesday. On Thursday, however, I was unable to connect to GitHub through RStudio and subsequently realized that I also wasn't able to connect through the shell as I had been the day before. The error presented was:
$ git remote show origin
fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/MatthewHogel/myrepo.git/': SSL certificate problem: self signed certificate in certificate chain
When disconnected from my network, the problem resolved itself. I'm not sure why it worked one day and not the next, but my computer was put through a force restart in between so network or OS settings may have been changed/updated.
So I am now in a position where I can create an environment where R and Git can communicate to GitHub (off my work network), however there is no Git tab to allow me to push and pull through RStudio.
RStudio is pointed properly to Git based on what is shown in Tools > Global Options. The PAT is '' and R has a path stored.
I have started troubleshooting using what's been discussed online, however there is a lot of content which makes me think that this is a problem that has been solved before, and although I haven't found anything that has worked, since this workshop has been run many times before I figured there may be a go-to solution known from your end.
Looking forward to the workshop.
Matt