Data & Setup

Data

The data used in these materials are provided as a zip file.

First, create a folder on your computer for the course (e.g. mixed-models). Then, download and unzip the the following data to the project folder you created.

R and RStudio

Windows

Download and install all these using default options:

• R
• RTools
• RStudio

Mac OS

Download and install all these using default options:

• R
• RStudio

Linux

• Go to the R installation folder and look at the instructions for your distribution.
• Download the RStudio installer for your distribution and install it using your package manager.

R packages

From an R console, you can run the following command to install all the packages used in this course:

install.packages(c("broom", 
                   "corrr", 
                   "distributional", 
                   "downlit", 
                   "downloadthis", 
                   "ggdist", 
                   "ggResidpanel", 
                   "janitor", 
                   "kableExtra", 
                   "knitr", 
                   "lme4", 
                   "patchwork", 
                   "pwr", 
                   "reticulate", 
                   "rstatix", 
                   "tidyverse", 
                   "lmerTest", 
                   "broom.mixed", 
                   "performance", 
                   "see",
                   "glmmTMB", 
                   "brms", 
                   "MASS", 
                   "RLRsim", 
                   "pbkrtest",
                   "DHARMa"))