We will be using RStudio to learn about and use knitr during the lecture, so please use RStudio for the purposes of the class. Apologies for any inconvenience.

Programs needed

Please be sure to have these loaded before the class

R v3.2.2 https://www.r-project.org/
RStudio v0.99.484 https://www.rstudio.com/
TeX/LaTex http://miktex.org/ (for Windows) http://tug.org/mactex/ (for Mac)
git https://git-scm.com/
GitHub https://education.github.com/pack
       sign up for the student developer pack and get a free micro account (provides 5 free private repositories)

Other programs of interest but not needed at this time

Pandoc v1.15.0.6 http://pandoc.org/ language translation tool
SublimeText3 http://www.sublimetext.com/3 text editor (there are loads of these)

A few good packages

knitr; markdown; ggplot2; maps; mapdata; mgcv; plyr; reshape2; lubridate; devtools; pander; RCurl

Coding style guide

A good method for styling your code in a way that others can read it
http://adv-r.had.co.nz/Style.html

R Markdown

Information on the R flavor of Markdown
http://rmarkdown.rstudio.com/

RStudio cheatsheets https://www.rstudio.com/resources/cheatsheets/

GitHub cheatsheet https://training.github.com/kit/downloads/github-git-cheat-sheet.pdf

LaTex wiki https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX

Stats and coding help (do yourself a favor and search these sites before asking questions)
http://stats.stackexchange.com/
http://stackoverflow.com/

Code used to geneerate this document
https://github.com/ben-williams/ReproResearch/blob/master/RR_Outline.Rmd