Getting started checklist

In order to best profit from the workshop please follow the instruction below. R is a programming language that is especially powerful for data exploration, visualization, and statistical analysis. To interact with R, we recommend to use RStudio.

1. Install R
2. Install RStudio (not mandatory but strongly recommended)
3. Install abn from CRAN and all dependencies

   install.packages("abn")
   

   3.1 Optionally, install latest version not yet on CRAN:

   install.packages("abn")
   

4. Install INLA

   install.packages("INLA", repos=c(getOption("repos"), INLA="https://inla.r-inla-download.org/R/stable"), dep=TRUE)
   

   4.1 Alternatively, you can download it and install from a local repository

   download.file("https://inla.r-inla-download.org/R/stable", path_to_file)
   install.packages(path_to_file, repos = NULL, type="source")
   

5. Install Rgraphviz

   if (!requireNamespace("BiocManager", quietly = TRUE))
    install.packages("BiocManager")
   BiocManager::install("Rgraphviz")
   

6. Install JAGS. Operating System dependant