RR_Outline.Rmd

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title: 'Fish 627: Introduction to Dynamic Reports  & Reproducible Research'
author: "Ben Williams"
date: "Oct 20 & 22, 2015"
output: html_document
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We will be using RStudio to learn about and use *knitr* during the lecture, so please use RStudio for the purposes of the class. Apologies for any inconvenience. 

##Programs needed  
*Please be sure to have these loaded before the class*

R v3.2.2             https://www.r-project.org/  
RStudio  v0.99.484   https://www.rstudio.com/  
TeX/LaTex            http://miktex.org/ (for Windows) http://tug.org/mactex/ (for Mac)  
git                  https://git-scm.com/  
GitHub               https://education.github.com/pack   
       *sign up for the student developer pack and get a free micro account (provides 5 free private repositories)*

## Other programs of interest but not needed at this time
Pandoc  v1.15.0.6  http://pandoc.org/  language translation tool  
SublimeText3 http://www.sublimetext.com/3 text editor (there are loads of these)

## A few good packages
knitr; markdown; ggplot2; maps; mapdata; mgcv; plyr; reshape2;
lubridate; devtools; pander; RCurl

## Coding style guide  
A good method for styling your code in a way that others can read it  
http://adv-r.had.co.nz/Style.html

## R Markdown  
Information on the R flavor of Markdown  
http://rmarkdown.rstudio.com/  

RStudio cheatsheets
https://www.rstudio.com/resources/cheatsheets/

GitHub cheatsheet
https://training.github.com/kit/downloads/github-git-cheat-sheet.pdf

LaTex wiki
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX

Stats and coding help  (do yourself a favor and search these sites before asking questions)  
http://stats.stackexchange.com/  
http://stackoverflow.com/

**Code used to geneerate this document**  
https://github.com/ben-williams/ReproResearch/blob/master/RR_Outline.Rmd