During the course we will be using both R and RStudio. To get your computer ready for this course please follow the instructions under the Core Software heading.

 

Core Software

Install R. You’ll need R version 4.2.1 or higher. Download and install R for Windows, Mac (download the latest R-4.x.x.pkg file for your appropriate version of Mac OS) or linux (choose your flavour of linux).

Install RStudio. Download and install the free RStudio Desktop version.

You will need to download and install R and RStudio separately. R is the underlying statistical computing environment. RStudio is a graphical integrated development environment (IDE) that makes using R a little easier. You need to install R before you install RStudio.

See the following video for step by step instructionsto installing R and RStudio.

 

 

And see this video for a short introduction to using RStudio.