Installation
Thanks for your interest in the GIS with R Workshop
- In order to prepare for the workshop, we ask you to try out the following three steps before the workshop.
- If you are not able to, please attend the online preparation sessions, and we can help you with the process.
Step 1 - Download R
In advance of the workshop, it would be great if you could install R. R can be installed for this website.
http://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/cran.r-project.org/
The process is very simple, and should only take two or three minutes. Select the default options when necessary.
Step 2 - Rstudio
Best practice among data science professionals is to write, review and manage their code using an Integrated Development Environment (IDE). For R programmers, the most popular IDE is RStudio.
For this workshop, we ask you to download and install Rstudio from this website.
http://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/
Again the process should be very quick. Select the default options when downloading and installing R.
Step 3 - Important R packages
In advance of the workshop install some R packages that we will use on the day.
All you have to do is to open R (making sure that you are connected to the internet), and run the following piece of code in RStudio.
install.packages("tidyverse")
install.packages("sf")
install.packages("terra")This process can take about 10 to 15 minutes, as there are many background processes being run sequentially.
R packages can also be installed from R Studio by clicking on the Tools menu and selecting install packages. A dialogue box will appear.
Downloading R packages with RStudio