2 R and RStudio

“R is ‘GNU S’, a freely available language and environment for statistical computing and graphics which provides a wide variety of statistical and graphical techniques: linear and nonlinear modelling, statistical tests, time series analysis, classification, clustering, etc.”

This is the description of R on the R website.

2.1 Install the R language

Download the most recent release of R for your platform from https://cloud.r-project.org/. Install it like any other program. It is important to install R before RStudio.

2.2 Install RStudio

RStudio is an integrated development environment (IDE) for R. Other IDEs do exist, but RStudio is the software of choice by far. Like, by far. Download the desktop version of RStudio from https://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/. This is the program in which you will interact with the R language and conduct all your analyses.