Before we start

To participate on the workshop you can either install R (>4.0) and Rstudio (see instructions bellow) or use an instance of R at Posit Cloud.

Using Posit Cloud

If you want to use Posit Cloud you will need a free account. Go to posit.cloud and follow the instructions to register. Keep in mind that the free account has a limited number of hours per month and you don’t want to use them all before the workshop.

We’ll provide a link to a pre-configured RStudio project during the workshop. You don’t have to do anything else.

Installing R and RStudio

To install R and RStudio follow the instructions in these videos by Danielle Navarro.

After you have everything installed, you’ll need to install a few packages required for the workshop. Follow these instructions:

  1. Open RStudio
  2. On the console (the panel on the left) type the following commands
install.packages("tidyverse")
install.packages("palmerpenguins")
install.packages("quarto")

  1. Check that you have a recent version of RStudio (2022.07 or later), which comes with Quarto already installed. You can see your version in Help -> About RStudio. If your version is older, install the latest one from posit.co/download/rstudio-desktop.

  2. Go to File -> New File -> Quarto Document… Click on “Create” to create a new file and then click the Render button at the top of the file. If RStudio asks your permission to install some packages (like rmarkdown), go ahead and do it.

  3. You can remove the file you just created.

  4. Download this project to work with during the workshop and extrat the files on the .zip.

  5. That’s it.