Chapter 2 Preparing for the workshop

All workshop materials are found at github.com/QCBSRworkshops/workshop04. This includes an R script which contains all code chunks shown in this book.

For this workshop, we will be working with the following datasets:

birdsdiet
dickcissel

To download this data, do right click + save on the page that opens.

You should also make sure you have downloaded, installed, and loaded these packages:

dplyr (to work with data)
vegan (for population data analyses)
e1071 (to test models)
MASS (for linear discriminant analysis)
car (for the analysis of variance)
effect (to visualize models)

To install them from CRAN, run:

# Install the required packages
install.packages("dplyr")
install.packages("vegan")
install.packages("e1071")
install.packages("MASS")
install.packages("car")
install.packages("effects")

To load these packages, run:

# Load the required packages
library(dplyr)
library(vegan)
library(e1071)
library(MASS)
library(car)
library(effects)