The Statistical Package R

The "R Project for Statistical Computing" is an extremely powerful piece of software that, among a million other things, has tremendous capacity for social network analysis. It's also free and has an amazing on-line support system of users and developers. It is quickly becoming a favorite of academics and analysts. 

One of the downsides is that it can be a bit "code heavy" for those who feel less than comfortable writing their own command-line code. Still, these are powerful set of tools and the training will over several labs for the more advanced attendees and analyst. 

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systems requiremnts

R and RStudio run on unix, linux, windows, and OSx platforms. 

igraph library

workshop tutorials & data

For the training, we will use an R package called, igraph, that has extensive network analysis capacities. It can be downloaded and installed within RStudio

We have developed a series of labs and tutorials for the workshop that use R and Rstudio. They can be downloaded here.