1. Set up R and R studio
2. Install and set up a version control software
3. Set up an online version control account
4. Project folder structure
5. File naming system

https://r.project.org is the official R webpage

To download R, go to the Comprehensive R Archive Network. https://cran.r-project.org/ and simply click on the link for your operating system.

To download RStudio, go to https://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/

GitHub provides unlimited private repositories for educational users: https://education.github.com/discount_requests/new

Your account needs to be associated with your Kenyon email address (@kenyon.edu)

https://classroom.github.com/classrooms/34753325-ecoinformatics

• Download git https://git-scm.com/downloads
• If you have windows also download gitbash

• Open shell from Rstudio. Tools > Shell
• Configure git with your name and email address

git config --global user.name "Your Name"
git config --global user.email your.email@domain.com

1. Open the practical folder: https://github.com/GlobalEcologyBiogeography/Ecoinformatics

2. Select a working directory and extract the practical files

3. Open the R file (file1.R) in Rstudio

4. Run the code in the file

1. Is the code reproducible?
2. How would you improve the code?
3. Are the files names informative?

Absolute path

"C:/project_root_folder/data/species_dat.csv"

Relative path

"data/species_dat.csv"

• Separate your code into pipeline chunks

From Joseph V. Casillas, 2015

• Comment your data and code
• Separate temporal working data from raw data