Setup and Prerequesites

Here’s a list of instructions to setup your computer for the workshop.

Installing git

Make sure you have git installed.

Installing Julia

Copy and paste the following command to install Julia, and the Julia version manager juliaup.

curl -fsSL https://install.julialang.org | sh

Installing Packages

Next, from a terminal, start Julia by typing julia and pressing enter. Then, run the following lines.

using Pkg
Pkg.add([
    "SpeciesDistributionToolkit",
    "CairoMakie",
    "Dates",
    "PrettyTables",
    "DataFrames",
    "IJulia"
])

Then, copy and paste the following layer to download the environmental predictors ahead of time (to avoid everyone attempting to download them at once on hotel Wi-Fi). This may take several minutes, depending on your internet connection.

using SpeciesDistributionToolkit
using IJulia

installkernel("julia")

[
    SDMLayer(RasterData(CHELSA2, BioClim), layer="BIO$i", left=40, right=43, bottom=30, top=35)
    for i in 1:19
]

Installing VSCode

Install VSCode from here.

Once VSCode is install It’s also recommended you install the Julia extension for VSCode here

Installing Quarto

Install Quarto from here.