The blog post Getting Linux on Windows 10 with WSL - Some basic installation instructions pitfalls and comments provides some references for getting started with the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), with an emphasis of getting R running on Ubuntu. However, having R on a local machine is not necessary when working with resources like Teton. This How-To, therefore, is going to focus on just the first part of the blog, related to getting WSL running on Windows, and provide some more explicit steps for getting you up and running. If you've played around with Linux on Windows before, you are probably familiar with partitioning for the purposes of dual-booting. WSL is not a dual-boot solution, and is remarkably simple to implement (much more so than a dual boot scenario, in my experience). It's also nice, because this means you can interact with a Linux environment, while stay staying in Windows, as opposed to having to having to boot into a Linux partition, and thus not having access to the same Windows resources you might be used to. The Linux environment associated with WSL is also not associated with a graphical user interface – everything is done via the terminal / command line.
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