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Setup

If you have any problems with software installation or dowloading data, please contact your instructors before the course.

Software installation

  • Download R and install it using default options. (Note: choose the "base" version for Windows)
  • Download RStudio and install it using default options.
  • Install required R packages:
    • open RStudio and from the upper menu press Tools > Install Packages...
    • under "Packages" type: tidyverse,naniar
    • press Install (a lot of text will start printing on the panel called "Console")

#### Testing your installation

On the RStudio panel named "Console" type library(tidyverse) and press Enter

A message similar to this should print:

── Attaching packages ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── tidyverse 1.2.1 ──
✔ ggplot2 3.2.1     ✔ purrr   0.3.2
✔ tibble  2.1.3     ✔ dplyr   0.8.3
✔ tidyr   1.0.0     ✔ stringr 1.4.0
✔ readr   1.3.1     ✔ forcats 0.4.0
── Conflicts ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── tidyverse_conflicts() ──
✖ dplyr::filter() masks stats::filter()
✖ dplyr::lag()    masks stats::lag()

If instead you get the message:

Error in library(tidyverse) : there is no package called ‘tidyverse’

then your package installation did not work. Please ask the instructors for assistance before the course.


#### Setting up RStudio

After installing RStudio, change some of its default options (you only need to do this once):

  • From the upper menu go to Tools > Global Options...
  • Untick the option "Restore .RData to workspace on startup."
  • Change "Save workspace to .RData on exit" option to "Never"
  • Press OK

Getting data

On your computer create a folder called r-workshop (or other name of your choice). Within that folder create a folder called data and within that another folder called raw. Schematically:

r-workshop/
└── data
    └── raw

Download the following files and save them in the data/raw folder (right-click the file link and choose "Save link as..."):

Note: these data were slightly modified from the original and should not be used for research.

{% include links.md %}