Logisitics&Prep.Rmd

---
title: "Preparation & Installation Instructions"
output: github_document
---

```{r setup, include=FALSE}
knitr::opts_chunk$set(echo = TRUE)
```
## Instructions before the workshop
Please make sure you have installed:

- [R (version 3.3.0 or higher)](https://www.r-project.org/)
- [Rstudio](https://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/#download) 
- The following packages:
    - tidyverse
    - lubridate
    - sf
    - ggplot2 (*developer's version)
    - mapview 
    - tlocoh **
    - adehabitatLT
    - adehabitatHR
    - move
    - raster
    - lme4
    - glmer
  
### Installation Instructions:
Inside the Rstudio console, you can install packages using the function `install.packages()`.

You can install packages one at a time using their name in quotes: `install.packages("raster")`

OR 

you can install multiple at one time using the `c()` function to combine all your names into one character vector:` install.packages(c("raster", "tidyverse", "sf"))`. 

**Keep an eye out for errors that may mean one or multiple packages are failing to load.**

* For the developer's versions, you will need to use the `devtools` package to download the most up to date versions from github.
This is very similar to the base `install.packages()` function except we have to give it more specific path names e.g.:
- `devtools::install_github("tidyverse/ggplot2")`

** The tlocoh package is found on R-forge so the installation function must be adapted to the following: `install.packages("tlocoh", dependencies=T, repos=c("http://R-Forge.R-project.org"))`


## Downloading Individual Files from github

If you want to download individual files during the workshop, We suggest you adapt and use the following code structure from R:

`download.file("rawgithub_hyperlink", "destination_file_name")`

OR

consider using [DownGit](https://minhaskamal.github.io/DownGit/#/home) to download a specific folder or file.