1 Software

You will need to have all of the following free software downloaded and in working order on your laptop.

Prior to first lecture

You must have the following on your laptops prior to the first lecture.

Compatible version of R software environment
Latest version of RStudio Desktop IDE
Quarto publishing system (for documents with integrated code).
You must have a functional PDF Engine to render Quarto (.qmd) documents into PDF. See this section on PDF Engines, and be sure to test whether you can render an example .qmd file into a PDF.

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You will need to have all of the following free software downloaded and in working order on your laptop.

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## Prior to first lecture

You must have the following on your laptops prior to the first lecture.
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-   Compatible version of [R software environment](https://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/cran/){target="_blank"}
-   Latest version of [RStudio Desktop IDE](https://posit.co/downloads/){target="_blank"}
-   [Quarto](https://quarto.org/docs/get-started/){target="_blank"} publishing system (for documents with integrated code).
-   You must have a functional PDF Engine to render Quarto (`.qmd`) documents into PDF. See this section on [PDF Engines](https://quarto.org/docs/output-formats/pdf-engine.html){target="_blank"}, and be sure to test whether you can render an example `.qmd` file into a PDF.