Day 1

1. Ensure Microsoft Excel or similar is installed on your system
2. Make a copy of the data file on your local system by going to https://github.com/carpentries-incubator/life-sciences-workshop and clicking ‘Clone or download’ followed by ‘Download zip’. Extract the files in ‘life-sciences-workshop-gh-pages\data’ to a suitable directory

Day 2

Installing R

1. Go to the list of mirror sites and chose the one chosen to you… https://cran.r-project.org/mirrors.html
2. Click on the appropriate link below and follow the instructions…

• For Windows: https://www.stats.bris.ac.uk/R/bin/windows/
• For Linux: https://www.stats.bris.ac.uk/R/bin/linux/
• For Mac: https://www.stats.bris.ac.uk/R/bin/macosx/

Installing R Studio

1. Go to https://rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/#download and choose the appropriate download file

Installing R packages

1. In R, run the following code,

• install.packages(c(‘ggplot2’, ‘drc’, ‘pwr’))