Software links

Unless you have experience building from source, select the binary download that matches your operating system (e.g., Windows, OS X/MacOS). If no options are available, the download will work on all systems.

Required

R (get latest version)

• Windows
• OS X

RStudio (get latest version)

• Download links

Suggested

Markdown (v. 1.0.1)

• Windows/OS X

(La)TeX:

• MiKTeX (Windows)
• MacTeX (OS X)

R packages to install

This workshop uses the following packages:

• tidyverse
• labelled
• plotly
• survey
• Rcpp
• microbenchmark
• rvest
• lubridate
• leaflet
• sf
• RColorBrewer
• devtools

Once you’ve installed R and RStudio, open RStudio (or the base R app) and run the following code:

pkgs <- c('tidyverse','labelled','plotly','survey','Rcpp',
          'microbenchmark','rvest','lubridate','leaflet',
		  'sf','RColorBrewer','devtools')
install.packages(pkgs)

You will also need the development version of ggplot2 from GitHub. Once you’ve installed devtools, run the following code:

devtools::install_github('tidyverse/ggplot2')

NOTE

You may be asked to choose a download mirror. Just pick one that is nearby.