Required software

To participate in workshops and complete assignments, you need:

1. R (CRAN)
2. RStudio Desktop
3. Quarto (for rendering .qmd assignments)

See also the Installation instructions page.

Quarto documents (.qmd)

In this course, assignments are submitted as Quarto source files (.qmd). You will write text + code in one file and render it to HTML/PDF.

• In RStudio: open the .qmd file and click Render.
• In a terminal: quarto render your_file.qmd.

R packages

You will need various R packages during the semester.

To install everything in one go, use the course installer script:

• Download install_r_packages.R from Course Overview → Install R packages and run Rscript install_r_packages.R.

Optional but recommended

• Git (version control) for your own project work
• TinyTeX if you want to render PDFs locally (otherwise HTML is sufficient for most assignments)