Instructions for R Workshop for Precision Agriculture Applications

• Go to www.r-project.org
• Click on a CRAN mirror
• (any of the many different places that are offered as options will do as well as any other)
• Select the operating system
• Select the base system
• Such as Windows or Mac, etc.
• Select the executable file that ends in .exe
• Save it
• Let it download
• Tell it to run
• Follow the setup wizard (Click Next, Next, Next…)
• Open your R console

Get a head start by installing some packages. Type in your open R console:
install.packages(c("car", "multcompView", "lsmeans"))
install.packages(c("agricolae", "multcomp", "DescTools"))
install.packages(c("nlme", "spatstat", "MASS"))
 
… Wait for your computer to install the statistical packages. This might take a while.
 
Installing R Studio (an IDE for R)
To install R Studio:

• Make sure you have the R environment installed
• Navigate to (‘https://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/’)
• Scroll to the near the bottom of the page and download the executable for your OS

• Install the Application, accepting the defaults
• Navigate to the R Studio icon and start the application to insure it installed correctly.
• We’ll go through the step by step of installing multiple libraries and including libraries