The following pieces of software/packages should be installed before the start of the workshop.
If you have not done so already you will need to download and install R:
While not strickly necessary to get the examples running the following program can be used to compile the R markdown files that accompany the examples.
You will need to install rstan by following the instuctions in one of the following links:
https://github.com/stan-dev/rstan/wiki/Installing-RStan-on-Mac-or-Linux
https://github.com/stan-dev/rstan/wiki/Installing-RStan-on-Windows
The following assumes that you have already installed R, rstan and optionally Rstudio by following the above instructions.