Pre-requisite

Software

  • The latest version of R installed (R version 3.5.2).

  • v.1.1 or better, Rstudio v.1.2 (Note that this version is not officially released yet).

  • These packages need to be installed / updated:
install.packages("knitr")
install.packages("rmarkdown")
install.packages("rticles")  
install.packages("tinytex")
tinytex::install_tinytex()  #Please run this command as well to install a LaTeX distribution. This may take a few minutes to install (~150MB).

  • Usefull trick: In Tools -> Global Options -> Code -> Display, check “Show whitespace characters”. This will let you see spaces and newlines characters in the editor.

  • Usefull trick: In Rstudio -> Preference -> Appearance. Change editor theme.

Course material