Students are expected to arrive with software installed on their laptops and ready to run the course programs. A guest account will be available enabling access to the UGA campus wi-fi network. The following programs are essential and must be installed (and should be tested) before the workshop starts. All of these freely available via the links below. These should be installed in the order below:
Program MARK
R statistical package. I recommend the 64-bit version for Windows, if your laptop has 64-bit capacity installed (you can find this out by checking the system properties in the control panel)
Once R is installed, the R package RMark must be installed to allow interfacing between the R program and MARK. This can be done by opening an R session and specifying Packages/install packages. Users must then select a CRAN mirror (sites where R and packages are stored), select RMark from the menu, and proceed. Alternatively a script file can be used to install RMark and other packages from within an R session:
R script file to automatically install several useful packages (including RMark)