(Updated: January 04 2018 21:31)
Welcome to MATH 4939
Have a look at the course description. MATH3131 and MATH4330 are prerequisites for taking this course. You must have completed them successfully before you can take this course for credit.
You should bring a laptop to all classes. Try to complete the following before Monday, January 8. Discuss any problems you encounter on Piazza.
Install the following:
- The current version of R: Even if you have used R in previous courses, you will need to install the current version from the Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN).
If you are asked to select a CRAN mirror, I suggest that you choose the 0-Cloud mirror which is first in the list.
- Windows only: Download and install the latest version of Rtools.
- Mac OS only:
- Install the Apple Xcode developer tools. For macOS 10.7 (Lion) or higher, you can install Xcode for free from the App Store. For earlier versions of macOS, Xcode can be installed from your system DVD or downloaded from the Apple developer website.
- Some R software (e.g., the rgl package for constructing dynamic 3D graphs) uses the the standard Unix X11 windowing system instead of the native Mac windowing system.
- Download the disk image (dmg) file for XQuartz (X11 softward for macOS) from the XQuartz website.
- When you open this file by double-clicking on it, you’ll find XQuartz.pkg; double-click on it to run the installer, clicking through all the defaults.
- Important: After the installer runs, you’ll have to log out and back on to your MacOS account – or simply reboot your Mac.
- RStudio: Install the free desktop version of RStudio. When you first run RStudio, it will use the last version of R that you installed.
- Create a RStudio project for MATH4939:
- Start RStudio by clicking on the desktop icon.
- From the RStudio menus, select Files > New Project.
- In the Create Project screen that appears, select New Directory.
- In the Project Type screen, select Empty Project.
- In the Create New Project screen, in the Directory name box, type MATH4939. Then click on the Create Project button at the lower right.
- Configure the course project:
- From the RStudio menus, select Tools > Project Options (Windows) or Tools > Preferences (MacOS).
- From the General options screen:
- Select No from the box to the right of Restore .RData into workspace at startup, and
- Select No from the box to the right of Save workspace to .RData on exit.
- Packages for this course: We will install many additional packages during the course. To get started, install basic packages by typing (or cutting and pasting) the following commands into the Console window in RStudio:
install.packages(c("car", "devtools", "effects", "ggplot2", "Hmisc"))
install.packages(c("knitr", "magrittr", "rgl", "rio", "rmarkdown"))
install.packages(c("latticeExtra"))
devtools::install_github('gmonette/spida2')
devtools::install_github('gmonette/p3d')
- Additional optional software: To create Sweave and knitr LaTeX documents (more sophisticated alternatives to R Markdown) in RStudio, and to compile R Markdown documents directly to PDF files, download and install MiKTeX LaTeX software (for Windows) or the MacTeX LaTeX system (for macOS).
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