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Fill out our pre-meeting survey. Your input is valuable to us!
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Be ready to share with the working group a two-minute introduction to yourself and your project and how you collect and manage data.
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To get the most out of the meetings, we encourage you to bring your own laptop. The meeting venue will feature guest Wi-Fi. Before arriving, be sure to install the following software:
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An up-to-date web browser. We recommend Chrome or Firefox. Please . . . no Internet Explorer.
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A text editor. We recommend:
- Atom (Mac, Windows, Linux)
- TextWrangler (Mac only)
- Notepad++ (Windows only)
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The statistical programming software R.
- For beginners, we also recommend installing RStudio, an Integrated Development Environment for R.
- You may also want to install the following packages (the code to do so is below):
- lubridate
- reshape2
- RMySQL
- RPostgreSQL
- RSQLite
- R4CouchDB
- jsonlite
Installing packages in R
install.packages('lubridate') install.packages('reshape2') install.packages('RMySQL') install.packages('RPostgreSQL') install.packages('RSQLite') install.packages('R4CouchDB') install.packages('jsonlite')
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The version control software git.
- We also recommending installing a graphical user interface client for your operating system:
- GitHub for Mac
- GitHub for Windows