Software

The following are the pieces of software we will be using. All of them are available at no expense and can be installed on your computer. You don't need to install them all immediately. Start with R and an editor. The others we will install as we need them.
  • R
    Install it on your machine and become familiar with it as soon as possible.
  • Text Editor: Tinn-R or Emacs
  • Command line Shell (e.g. bash, tcsh, fish)
    On Unix/Linux/Mac OS X, you have a shell. On Windows, download and install cygwin.
  • RSQLite
  • The XML and RCurl packages.

    • Windows

    For Windows users, it may be useful to be able to login to a departmental Linux machine that has quite a lot of RAM and is reasonably fast.
  • Putty:
    You will need to be able to ssh to the machine and putty can provide this facility
  • XMing
    To see graphics windows created on the Linux machine on your Windows machine, you will need to run an "X server", a server for the X11 windows system.

    • Mac OS X

    Editors: Aquamacs and Emacs
    A simple version of emacs is already installed. Aquamacs can be installed to give a version of emacs that is contained in its own window and has more Mac GUI-like features.
    ssh
    ssh is already installed.
    Duncan Temple Lang
    <duncan@wald.ucdavis.edu>
    Last modified: Fri Sep 18 11:10:16 PDT 2009