MSCI 709 Marine Data Science with R

Unit 1: Getting Started

Course GitHub site: https://github.com/MSCI-709

Unit 1 GitHub repository: https://github.com/MSCI-709/unit_1_software

Introductions to the major software that we will use in this class.

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Preparation:

• Download and install the latest version of R: http://archive.linux.duke.edu/cran/
  • (or make sure your current version of R is updated)
• Download and install the latest version of RStudio Desktop: https://rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/
  • (or make sure your current version of RStudio is updated)
• Download and install Latex: https://www.latex-project.org/get/
• If you are on a mac, download and install Xcode Command Line Tools
  • Go to Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal and type: xcode-select --install
  • OR: Download here: https://developer.apple.com/xcode/
  • then Go to Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal and type: sudo xcodebuild -license accept
  • Note: You will need administrative privileges and the password for your computer
• Register (make a user profile) on GitHub: https://github.com/
  • Consider signing up for the free student account which gives perks like free private repositories: https://education.github.com/discount_requests/student_application
• Download and install Git on your computer: https://git-scm.com/downloads
  • See the beginning of MSCI 758 Unit 1 lesson file 3_GitHub.html for more installation and configuration instructions
  • Make sure to configure Git email and username on your local computer

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Lesson 1: Introduction to R

New functions:

print(), c(), typeof(), length(), seq(), rep(), matrix(), class(), array(), list(), data.frame(), round(), mean(), install.packages(), library(), as.character(), as.numceric(), is.na()

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Lesson 2: Introduction to RMarkdown

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Lesson 3: Introduction to Git and GitHub

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HW 1: software practice

Assigned: 1/19/23

Invitation link: https://classroom.github.com/a/3Cy917gP

DUE: 1/26/2023

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