Make list of required R-packages to be installed before the first class

[joelostblom]

We could also install this at the first class, or let the students install them as a learning experience. However, in order to get things running smoothly, I think we should install most, if not all of them, prior to the first class and test that things are working as expected.

Packages:

• dplyr
• prodigenr
• ggplot2
• rmarkdown
• plotly?

@lwjohnst86 @lcoome what more is not part of a base R-studio install? Does it come with all these?

[joelostblom]

I just spoke to the desktop support person for the computer labs, and they said that we should forward them a list of packages to be installed, rather than installing them ourselves. So please add to the list above.

[joelostblom]

New email:

I just wanted to give you an update on the software that is installed. We do
have R-Studio installed, and if it is just the packages that you want to be
added, you would be able to do that to test them out. This process would need
to be repeated each time you/your students log in as any user installs and
saved documents get wiped daily.

[lwjohnst86]

get wiped daily.

That's what I was assuming would be the case.

Ok, I say, to make things easy, we just get them to install install.packages('tidyverse'). This one package automatically installs a lot of the very useful packages (dplyr, ggplot2, etc) that comes under the umbrella of the tidyverse.

We might end up having to get them to install ecology packages, but at this point I don't know much about that. Plus, the ecology package the students may use may change depending on the research topic they get into. I'll look around more, but tidyverse should be fine for now.

[lwjohnst86]

Oh, right, and rmarkdown. But anytime they knit a document RStudio will check if it is installed and ask if you want to install it automatically.

[joelostblom]

Great thanks!
I will ask them to install:

• tidyverse
• rmarkdown
• prodigenr

We can always install plotly and other as we go since we will probably only show those once.

[joelostblom]

@lwjohnst86 Is Rmarkdown all they need to make notebooks? There are no other packages? I guess it doesn't take too long for the automatic download when clicking to create a new notebook, but it would be nice if they packages were all setup in the off chance that we have troubles with internet one day or something like that.

[lwjohnst86]

rmarkdown is all they need! 🙂

[joelostblom]

danke!

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