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--- 
title: "Introduction to Environmental Data Science"
author: "Jerry Davis"
date: "`r Sys.Date()`"
site: bookdown::bookdown_site
documentclass: book
bibliography: [book.bib, packages.bib]
biblio-style: apalike
link-citations: yes
description: "Background, concepts and exercises for environmental data science methods applying the R language and various libraries for data manipulation, data analysis, spatial data/mapping, and time series. The output format for this example is bookdown::gitbook.  Book is under development, and currently just has five chapters, including this prerequisite chapter."
---

# Prerequisites

This book is intended to work in concert with a series of lectures and discussions among the participants in Geog 604/704 Environmental Data Science at San Francisco State University.  Data packages will be created on GitHub.

Currently (March-April 2021) four chapters of the book are initially being used in will be used in Geog 9031 Introduction to R in the GIS Certificate Program.

Participants need to have R and RStudio installed, and at least the following packages:

- tidyverse (to include ggplot2, dplyr, tidyr, stringr, etc.)
    - ggplot2
    - dplyr
    - stringr
    - tidyr
- lubridate
- palmerpenguins
- sf
- raster
- tmap