R_Fundamentals_Training

Welcome to R! This project is designed to give you the basic fundamentals in R for the Statistics for Development Division of SPC

Software Prerequestions

Download and install the software in this order:

1. The latest version of Rtools here: https://cloud.r-project.org/
2. The latest version of R from here: https://cloud.r-project.org/
3. Notepad++ from here: https://notepad-plus-plus.org/downloads/
4. Miktek from here: https://miktex.org/howto/download-miktex
5. Pandoc from here: https://pandoc.org/
6. ImageMagik from here: https://imagemagick.org/script/download.php#windows
7. Git (64 bit windows version) from here: https://git-scm.com/downloads/win

FRESH R SET UP Code

R is like a new baby when its first installed. Copy and paste the following code EXACTLY as is. This will take a few hours, and prompt you a copy of times for answers to different questions.

install.packages("ctv")
library(ctv)
install.views("Bayesian")
install.views("CausalInference")
install.views("Cluster")
install.views("Databases")
install.views("Distributions")
install.views("DynamicVisualizations")
install.views("Econometrics")
install.views("Environmetrics")
install.views("ExperimentalDesign")
install.views("ExtremeValue")
install.views("GraphicalModels")
install.views("HighPerformanceComputing")
install.views("MachineLearning")
install.views("MissingData")
install.views("MixedModels")
install.views("ModelDeployment")
install.views("NaturalLanguageProcessing")
install.views("NumericalMathematics")
install.views("OfficialStatistics")
install.views("Optimization")
install.views("Psychometrics")
install.views("ReproducibleResearch")
install.views("Robust")
install.views("Spatial")
install.views("Survival")
install.views("TimeSeries")
install.views("Tracking")
install.views("WebTechnologies")
install.views("ActuarialScience")
install.views("Hydrology")
devtools::install_github("omegahat/RDCOMClient")

If you want to know what functionality each of these commands is loading, look here: https://cran.r-project.org/web/views/

Clone your own Repo

In the instructions below, "FirstnameLastnameVersion" is your first name, and your last name put together. Secondly, GIT is case-sensistive so "git add -a" is different from "git add -A".

Time to make a git clone of this repo.

1. Find a place on your c drive - NOT ON YOUR ONEDRIVE (yes, I shouted. A local copy, not a cloud copy, is really important) - where you are going to save all of your GIT work. For example, I have an area called "C:\From BigDisk\GIT"
2. Open gitbash and change directory to that choosen location in 1.a (cd "C:\From BigDisk\GIT")
3. Clone the repo: git clone https://github.com/PacificCommunity/R_Fundamentals_Training.git
4. Move to that new location (cd "C:\From BigDisk\GIT\R_Fundamentals_Training")
5. Make a new branch for you (git branch FirstnameLastnameVersion)
6. Check out new branch (git checkout FirstnameLastnameVersion)
7. Add all of the files (git add -A)
8. Do an initial commit (git commit -m "Initial commit")
9. Push your new branch back into GitHub (git push --set-upstream origin FirstnameLastnameVersion)