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-Welcome! 
 
-This is a minimal example of a book based on R Markdown and **bookdown** (https://github.com/rstudio/bookdown). 
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-This template provides a skeleton file structure that you can edit to create your book. 
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-The contents inside the .Rmd files provide some pointers to help you get started, but feel free to also delete the content in each file and start fresh.
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-Additional resources:
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-The **bookdown** book: https://bookdown.org/yihui/bookdown/
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-The **bookdown** package reference site: https://pkgs.rstudio.com/bookdown
+This is an introduction of the Human Islet project.