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The data used in these materials is provided as a zip file. Download and unzip the folder to your Desktop to follow along with the materials.
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Download and install all these using default options:
Download and install all these using default options:
- Go to the R installation folder and look at the instructions for your distribution.
- Download the RStudio installer for your distribution and install it using your package manager. :::
For this course we'll be using Visual Studio Code. This provides support for various programming languages (including Python and R). It works on Windows, MacOS and Linux. It's also open-source and free.
Please refer to the installation instructions and make sure that you verify that Python code will run.
A brief sequence of events:
- Install Visual Studio Code
- Install the VS Code Python extension
- Install a Python interpreter
- Windows: install from Python.org or use the Microsoft Store
- MacOS: install the Homebrew package manager, then use this to install Python
- Linux: comes with Python 3, but needs
pip
to install additional packages