{"id":89,"date":"2016-08-25T17:29:31","date_gmt":"2016-08-25T21:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/psmgis\/?page_id=89"},"modified":"2021-01-14T17:12:12","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T22:12:12","slug":"software-used-in-psm-in-gis-courses","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/psmgis\/software-used-in-psm-in-gis-courses\/","title":{"rendered":"Software used in PSM in GIS courses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PSM students will be provided with laptops, but the laptops only have university-licensed software installed (ArcGIS, MS Office). Professors will be using a variety of FOSS (free and open source software) in various courses, and you will have administrative rights to install the required software on your computers. (Non-PSM students in certain courses will have to provide their own laptops and also install the required software.)<\/p>\n<h1>QGIS<\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/qgis.org\/en\/site\/\">QGIS<\/a>, is an open source GIS software comparable to ArcGIS. Installation instructions for Win\/Mac\/Linux are available at Prof. Hachadoorian&#8217;s Open Geospatial Technologies blog: <a href=\"https:\/\/geospatial.commons.gc.cuny.edu\/getting-oriented-to-qgis\/\">Getting Oriented to QGIS<\/a>. On Windows, the recommended installation method is the <a href=\"https:\/\/trac.osgeo.org\/osgeo4w\/\">OSGeo4W suite<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Note that the instructions for QGIS include a lot of supporting software, including GDAL\/OGR and SQLite\/SpatiaLite, which will also come into play even when we are not using QGIS.<\/p>\n<h2>Useful Plugins<\/h2>\n<p>These can be installed by going to Plugins \u2192 Manage and Install Plugins\u2026<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Contour<\/li>\n<li>Geocoding<\/li>\n<li>MMQGIS<\/li>\n<li>Point Sampling Tool<\/li>\n<li>qgis2web<\/li>\n<li>QuickMapServices<\/li>\n<li>QuickWKT<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>QGIS 3.0 represented a major change in the code base for QGIS, and broke compatibility with many plugins. Below are a list of plugins previously recommended which are not available in QGIS 3.x. They are still available for the current Long-Term Release, QGIS 2.18, and their developers may yet make them available for 3.x.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>FlowMapper<\/li>\n<li>Heatmap<\/li>\n<li>Spatial Query<\/li>\n<li>XyTools<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>R &amp; RStudio<\/h1>\n<p>Several courses, including the required GUS 5162 Advanced Statistics for Urban Applications, make use of the R statistical language. RStudio is an optional but extremely useful IDE.<\/p>\n<h2>Installing<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>R (<a href=\"http:\/\/cran.rstudio.com\/\">http:\/\/cran.rstudio.com\/<\/a>) \u2013 Note, there\u2019s a lot of text on this site, but you really only need one file, based on your operating system:\n<ul>\n<li>Windows (<a href=\"https:\/\/cran.r-project.org\/bin\/windows\/base\/\">https:\/\/cran.r-project.org\/bin\/windows\/base\/<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Mac (<a href=\"https:\/\/cran.r-project.org\/bin\/macosx\/\">https:\/\/cran.r-project.org\/bin\/macosx\/<\/a>)\n<ul>\n<li>For some reason the Mac installer downloads as an &#8220;Unknown&#8221; file on some people&#8217;s laptops. If it does this, rename the file to anything that ends <code>.pkg<\/code> and Mac Installer will be able to run it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>RStudio (<a href=\"https:\/\/rstudio.com\/products\/rstudio\/download\/\">https:\/\/rstudio.com\/products\/rstudio\/download\/<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Useful Libraries<\/h2>\n<p>When you install, click Yes to create a \u201cpersonal library\u201d. Install with<\/p>\n<pre><code>install.packages(\"&lt;library name&gt;\", dep=TRUE)\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<ul>\n<li>tidyverse \u2014 This is a metapackage which bundles several other packages for data management and visualization: broom, dplyr, forcats, ggplot2, haven, httr, hms, jsonlite, lubridate, magrittr, modelr, purrr, readr, readxl, stringr, tibble, rvest, tidyr, xml2<\/li>\n<li>sf<\/li>\n<li>tmap<\/li>\n<li>sp<\/li>\n<li>RColorBrewer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>GeoDa<\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/geodacenter.github.io\/download.html\">http:\/\/geodacenter.github.io\/download.html<\/a><\/p>\n<h1>pgAdmin<\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pgadmin.org\/download\/\">https:\/\/www.pgadmin.org\/download\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PSM students will be provided with laptops, but the laptops only have university-licensed software installed (ArcGIS, MS Office). 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