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.
Later in the course you will need two more things, and both have their own page under the Setup menu above. For Exercise 7 you will need R markdown and a LaTeX installation so that you can produce PDF documents, which is also what your report assessment needs: see Setting up R markdown. For Exercise 9 you will need Git and a GitHub account: see Git and GitHub. You do not need either of them yet, and the Git one in particular is a good deal more fiddly than installing R, so leave them until nearer the time.
Install R. You’ll need R version 4.5.2 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 instructions to installing R and RStudio.
And see this video for a short introduction to using RStudio.