Contributors: Jay Lennon ([email protected]), Ken Locey, & Mario Muscarella

Funding: Development of Indiana University's first Quantitative Biodiversity class, including the materials in this repository, were supported by a National Science Foundation Dimensions of Biodiversity grant (1442246) awarded to Drs Jay Lennon and Ken Locey of Indiana University, Bloomington.

###Contents

CourseRequirements.md: Software required to use the Quantative Biodiversity 2015 assignments and workflow.

CourseResources.md: Helpful links for learning about GitHub, R, RStudio, ggplot2, and phylogenetic ecology tools Picante and Kembel

GitAutomation: A folder containing bash scripts for automating the deployment of assignments and materials to student repositories, and a text file containing the names of the students repositories (or any repositories receiving automated updates).

GitFlow.pdf: Nicely diagrammed illustrations of the GitHub-based Quantative Biodiversity workflow

Resources: A basic set reference materials relating to Git, R, Unix/Linux, and the installation of various software.

• GitFlow-All.pdf
• RMarkdownCheatSheet.pdf
• RMarkdownCheatSheet.png
• R_ReferenceCard.pdf
• SoftwareInstallation.Rmd
• SoftwareInstallation.pdf
• Unix_Reference.pdf
• git-cheat-sheet.pdf
• git-cheat-sheet.png
• Syllabus.pdf and Syllabus.Rmd: For the 2015 class