Welcome to Biostat M280 Statistical Computing.
Today
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Computer languages.
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Introduction to Julia programming.
Course material
- If you want to a copy of course materials, try
mkdir Hua-Zhou.github.io
cd Hua-Zhou.github.io
git init
git remote add -f origin https://github.com/Hua-Zhou/Hua-Zhou.github.io.git
git config core.sparsecheckout true
echo teaching/biostatm280-2019spring/ >> .git/info/sparse-checkout
git pull origin master
To update the course materials later, issue
git pull
within the Hua-Zhou.github.io folder.
Homework (not graded)
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Download and install Julia v1.1.0 from https://julialang.org/downloads/.
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Install pacakges by running following command in Julia REPL:
using Pkg
Pkg.add(["IJulia", "Distributions", "RCall", "BenchmarkTools", "Plots", "PyPlot", "Gadfly", "Plotly", "GR", "StatsPlots"])
- Watch tutorial Intro to Julia (2h28m), by Jane Herriman.