Chapter 2 - Loading R Packages
2025-04-07
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1.2-LoadPackage.RmdLoading R Packages
The functionalities of some packages may require updated versions of R and RStudio. To avoid errors, please ensure you are using the most recent releases of R and RStudio, and update your R packages.
Installing naturecounts
You can install naturecounts from GitHub with the remotes package:
install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("BirdsCanada/naturecounts")After installation, you need to load the package each time you open a new R session.
Additional packages
Throughout the book we use the tidyverse R package, which is actually a collection of R packages for data science, including tidyr, dplyr, and ggplot2, among others. The tidyverse package can be installed from CRAN and loaded into R as follows:
install.packages("tidyverse")
library(tidyverse) You may find additional packages are needed to manipulate and visualize your data. For example, if you are interested in Mapping Observation a suite of packages need to be installed and loaded. The process is similar to that previously describe.