We will be using R and RStudio throughout the course. To provide uniform and installation-free access, we have also setup a Posit Cloud, previously known as RStudio Cloud. Posit Cloud is an online service that allows us to run the Rstudio integrated development environment (IDE) through a normal web browser. The advantage of this is that we avoid can software installation problems and that it makes collaboration between students and teachers easy.
You can access the Posit Cloud workspace via the invite link in your e-mail. Additionally, all scripts are shared as described above.
There will be hands-on exercises throughout the course. Exercise scripts are named by the module and subject they relate to. The exercises will be added graduately to this git repository. If you work on your own machine you will need to have git installed on your machine to easily get the changes to this repo.
On posit cloud you can simply click the PMDS_2026 project to get your own copy.
If you do not already have Rstudio installed you can download it here: https://posit.co/download/rstudio-desktop
If you do not have git installed on your machine you can install it by following this guide: Install Git.
In Rstudio choose File -> New Project -> Version Control -> git and use this repository URL: https://github.com/BesenbacherLab/PMDS_2026.git
To run the scripts on your own machine, you will need a set of packages. For most users, these can be installed swiftly by the code in "INSTALL_PACKAGES.R". If you use the Posit Cloud project then these should already be installed.
To get new the new exercises when the become available you can update your local version of this repo by clicking on the git tab in the upper right corner and then clicking "pull".