Data & Setup

Data

The data used in these materials is provided as a zip file. Download and unzip the folder to your Desktop to follow along with the materials.

Software

R and RStudio

Windows

Download and install all these using default options:

Mac OS

Download and install all these using default options:

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.

Python

For this course we’ll be using Visual Studio Code. This provides support for various programming languages (including Python and R). It works on Windows, MacOS and Linux. It’s also open-source and free.

Please refer to the installation instructions and make sure that you verify that Python code will run.

A brief sequence of events:

  1. Install Visual Studio Code
  2. Install the VS Code Python extension
  3. Install a Python interpreter
    • Windows: install from Python.org or use the Microsoft Store
    • MacOS: install the Homebrew package manager, then use this to install Python
    • Linux: comes with Python 3, but needs pip to install additional packages