To check onsite

[dill]

To check with Duke IT and when we're on site (Monday):

• [x] run through all exercises on lab machines
• [x] check that ArcGIS/MGET works
• [x] check that R/RStudio works (and install.packages works)
• [x] confirm that user home spaces will be persistent Yes, but only per machine
• [x] can we beam participants' screens onto the projector
• [x] projector resolution and aspect ratio

[dill]

Dave's notes on this:

• R version is 3.1.0 (2014-04-10) by default
  • R 3.2.1 is also install, switched this (64bit) to default in RStudio does this persist?
  • Annoyingly installing packages from CRAN now presents a "compiled under 3.2.2" warning
• RStudio version is 0.99.467
• When hitting "Knit HTML" button for the first time, folks are asked to install knitr, yaml, caTools, bitops and rmarkdown.
• Installed packages as required on http://distancesampling.org/workshops/duke-spatial-2015/ this works fine
• Installed dsm 2.2.11 from https://github.com/DistanceDevelopment/dsm/releases/tag/2.2.11 to get 5-variance.Rmd to work -- need to remove the -windows from the file name or R gets angry

Working:

• [X] All exercises with data on website/box
• [X] All solutions with data on website/box
• [ ] All exercises with data from Jason
• [ ] All solutions with data from Jason

Things to find out:

• [x] does R version for RStudio persist? On a given machine, yes

[dill]

Trying this out on another machine:

• Home directory is local

First run instructions:

• Users need to switch RStudio R version to 3.2.1 (RStudio CRAN mirror https issue?)
• Need to install R packages from http://distancesampling.org/workshops/duke-spatial-2015/ and update dsm https://github.com/DistanceDevelopment/dsm/releases/tag/2.2.11 (leave this until Friday morning?)
• Hit "Knit HTML" and get it to install other required packages

[dill]

This was done Monday, doesn't seem like anything else weird came up during the classes.