Software for honours students

 

I spoke to our new crop of honours students this morning. Here are my slides, example files and links.

Managing References

• Mendeley
• Zotero
• Paperpile

Data analysis and computation

• Download R
• Download Rstudio
• Online R tutorial
• R packages for time series
• R packages for econometrics
• R packages for finance

Writing your thesis

LaTeX

• Windows: Download MikTeX
• Mac OSX: Download MacTeX
• Linux: Check your usual software source for TeXLive; otherwise install TeX Live directly.

RMarkdown template

• RMarkdown
• Monash honours thesis Rmarkdown template