The quickest way to launch a terminal/shell, from whatever operative system you are working in, is within Rstudio itself, in the tools menu, as observed by Hadley Wickham in his comment below. To make the link, first open the “global options” after selecting the “GIT/SVN” tab, you will have to find the “git.exe” file within your Mac (if you are using Windows, give a look to the comment by Rajesh here below). You can download the last git version from Git website 1. I am not going to explain you the reason why you should use Github with your Rstudio project, but if you are asking this to yourself, you may find useful a Stack Overflow discussion on the topic. Now that I managed to solve the problem, I think you may find useful the detailed tutorial that follows. Since it is one of Best Practices for Scientific Computing, I have been struggling for a while with this problem. Pushing to my Github repository directly from the Rstudio project, avoiding that annoying “copy & paste” job.

Git rstudio tutorial