Required software

Software that not everyone may have installed, but that many if not most will need to use, and that thus should be installed in advance.

Software to be installed in advance

• Git (Unix or Mac) or Git/Bash (Windows)
• Decent text editor (TextWrangler works great on a Mac, Emacs + ESS, Rstudio)
• LaTeX (Miktex on windows, package texlive on linux)
• Latest version of R (version 3.1.3)
• R Packages:
  • Population genetics & phylogenetics: ape, pegas, adegenet, genetics, hierfstat
  • Plotting: ggplot2
  • Essential for R package development, and for installing non-CRAN (Github) packages: devtools
  • Documentation (vignettes, practicals, tutorials): knitr
• C compiler:
  • For windows, install Rtools
  • For mac, install XCode
  • For linux, everything should be up and running.