Random notes from going through install process

[nkrumm]

I have little R experience, and my computer is R-naïve, so I will document some notes here that come up during install process:

• First time installation of knitr, tidyverse, etc (and dependencies) takes a LONG time (>5 minutes on my mac mini). I dont know if this is because I'm compiling the packages (is there a way to specify pre-compiled? Presumably there are many target builds), but we will need to fill the time while people wait for the packages to install, or have some faster install method.
• Do folks need XCode/clang installed for compiling?

[pcmathias]

• For the course, we were planning on asking people to install R, RStudio, and the tidyverse package ahead of time. You think it'll be too much to ask the residents?
• I didn't think that XCode was a requirement was a requirement, unless you were doing package development. Could be wrong.

We should probably try to run through the installation process on a Windows machine.