Packages

These packages will be used throughout the workshop:

library(shiny); library(shinyjs); library(shinydashboard); library(tidyverse); library(lubridate); library(leaflet); library(leaflet.esri); library(rhandsontable); library(htmlwidgets); library(webshot); library(rmarkdown); library(knitr)

You should also install these packages by running the following:

webshot::install_phantomjs()

If you do not already have a LaTex compiler on your machine, run the following:

install.packages('tinytex')

tinytex::install_tinytex()

If you do not get TRUE when you run tinytex:::is_tinytex(), then you probably need to run this: tinytex::install_tinytex(force=TRUE). More info on this process and the TinyTex package can be found here: https://yihui.name/tinytex/. Note the difference between tinytex the R package and TinyTeX the LaTeX distribution.

To make sure your compiler is running properly, create a new RMarkdown file (.Rmd) and knit to PDF. If you can create a PDF from inside RStudio, you are good to go!