Workshop Setup Instructions
Requirements: The workshop's teaching is hands-on, so participants are encouraged to bring in and use their own laptops to insure the proper setup of tools for an efficient workflow once they leave the workshop. There are no pre-requisites, and we will assume no prior knowledge about the tools.
Contact: Please email doehle@okstate.edu for questions and information not covered here.Setup
To participate in a the workshop, you will need working copies of the software described below. Please make sure to install everything and try opening it to make sure it works before the start of your workshop. If you run into any problems, please feel free to email the instructor or arrive early to your workshop on the first day. Participants should bring and use their own laptops to insure the proper setup of tools for an efficient workflow once they leave the workshop.
This workshop will be using the software outlined in the install instructions below. Please see the section for your operating system.
Windows
Please go through all the installation steps below and make sure that you not only installed them, but start them up to make sure they're working. If you have any problems, don't hesitate to email the instructors to ask for help, or arrive early on the first day of the workshop to get help.
- Download R from here
- Run the .exe file that was just downloaded
- Go to the RStudio Download page
- Under Installers select RStudio 0.98.1103 - Windows Vista/7/8/10
- Double click the file to install it
- Once it's installed, open RStudio to make sure it works and you don't get any error messages.
In the workshop, we will use RStudio. RStudio is a nice interface to the programming language R. To use RStudio, you need to install both R and RStudio.
Mac
Please go through all the installation steps below and make sure that you not only installed them, but start them up to make sure they're working. If you have any problems, don't hesitate to email the instructors to ask for help, or arrive early on the first day of the workshop to get help.
- Go to CRAN and click on Download R for (Mac) OS X
- Select the .pkg file for the version of OS X that you have and the file will download.
- Double click on the file that was downloaded and R will install
- Go to the RStudio Download page
- Under Installers select RStudio x.yy.zzz - Mac OS X 10.6+ (64-bit) to download it.
- Once it's downloaded, double click the file to install it
- Once it's installed, open RStudio to make sure it works and you don't get any error messages.
In the workshop, we will use RStudio. RStudio is a nice interface to the programming language R. To use RStudio, you need to install both R and RStudio.
Linux
Please go through all the installation steps below and make sure that you not only installed them, but start them up to make sure they're working. If you have any problems, don't hesitate to email the instructors to ask for help, or arrive early on the first day of the workshop to get help.
- Follow the instructions for your distribution
from CRAN. For most distributions, you
can use your package manager (e.g. for Debian/Ubuntu run
sudo apt-get install r-base, and for Fedora runsudo yum install R) but make sure that you have at least R 3.2.2 (as pre-packaged versions might be out of date). - To install RStudio, go to the RStudio Download page
- Under Installers select the version for your distribution.
- Once it's downloaded, double click the file to install it (or
sudo dpkg -i rstudio-x.yy.zzz-amd64.debat the terminal). - Once it's installed, open RStudio to make sure it works and you don't get any error messages.
In the workshop, we will use RStudio. RStudio is a nice interface to the programming language R. To use RStudio, you need to install both R and RStudio.