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Logisitics&Prep.Rmd

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 title: "Preparation & Installation Instructions"
-author: "Dana Seidel"
-date: "1/12/2018"
-output: html_document
+output: github_document
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 ```{r setup, include=FALSE}
 knitr::opts_chunk$set(echo = TRUE)
 ```
-# Instructions before the workshop
+## Instructions before the workshop
 Please make sure you have installed:
 
 - [R (version 3.3.0 or higher)](https://www.r-project.org/)
@@ -27,23 +25,25 @@ Please make sure you have installed:
     - lme4
     - glmer
 
-## Installation Instructions:
+### 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"))`. 
+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.
+* 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
+## 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:
 

Logisitics_Prep.md

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+Preparation & Installation Instructions
+================
+
+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.