This is an RMarkdown document prepared for Dr. Ashok Krishnamurthy to enable him to reliably get the presentation participants setup with RStudio and introduce them to the terra package and some background for spatialEpisim. Download the RMD document from this GitHub Gist: https://gist.github.com/bryce-carson/0b5b9e491016837129ee339944b6a6c6 See https://github.com/ashokkrish/spatialEpisim for more information about the spatialEpisim project. Prepared for Dr. Krishnamurthy by Bryce Carson (https://github.com/bryce-carson).