Before we get started this quarter, it is important that you spend time making sure that your computer is set-up and ready to go. The first step in this is basic maintenance; i.e. clean up your desktop and update your OS. Having lots of files on your desktop or multiple tabs open can negatively impact your computer’s performance. Data scientists are neat and tidy! Spend time getting yourself organized.
In order to get set-up, you need to do four things:
R is open source and constantly changing. Make regular version checks part of your routine. R will run on a variety of platforms, but there are slight differences between Mac and PC versions.
Download the latest version of R here and install.
RStudio is an integrated development environment IDE that allows for more intuitive operation of R and includes numerous additional features. All of our work will be done in RStudio.
Download the latest version of RStudio here and install.
install.packages("tidyverse")We use several packages as part of the class, but the most important is tidyverse.
GitHub is the website where we will upload all of our work, including homework and class files. GitHub Desktop is an interface that allows us to keep track of changes (version control) and upload.