Install trawlData

trawlData is an R package. To use it, you must first have R installed.

Furthermore, you need to prepare your system for installing R packages from source.

1. Linux: everything you need should already be installed
2. Mac OSX: Install XCode (in AppStore)
3. Windows: Install RTools; here for example instructions

You will also need to download (clone) this repository using Git. See here for to get going with Git.

Note: install_github currently doesn't work with Git LFS. So you have to clone the repo to install.

To install this repo, the easiest thing to do is to clone it, then then use devtools:install():

• In terminal, type:

cd path/to/folder/to/hold/repo
git clone https://github.com/rBatt/trawlData
cd trawlData
git lfs pull

• In R, type:

library(devtools)
setwd("path/to/folder/to/hold/repo/trawlData")
devtools::install(update_packages=FALSE)