A short course on how to fit, plot, and evaluate GAMs
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You will need to install R and we recommend using RStudio. The latest version of R can be downloaded here. RStudio is an application (an integrated development environment or IDE) that facilitates the use of R and offers a number of nice additional features. It can be downloaded here. You will need the free Desktop version for your computer.
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Download the course materials as a ZIP file here. Alternatively, if you have the usethis, R package, running the following command will download the course materials and open them:
usethis::use_course('pedersen-fisheries-lab/DFO-3day-gam-workshop') -
Install the R packages required for this course by running the following line of code your R console:
install.packages(c("dplyr", "rnaturalearth", "sf", "lwgeom", "dsm", "ggplot2", "remotes", "mgcv", "tidyr")) remotes::install_github("gavinsimpson/gratia")
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You can also use a free online environment rather than installing R on your machine. Click here to launch an online RStudio environment with the course materials and packages already installed:
(Note that this will be a temporary environment run on the free Binder service. Download and save any materials you create, as your session will not be saved after quitting.)
