Installing Software for this course

This course will require the following software, all of which is free

  1. R. The programming language and interpreter that actually runs the code
  2. RStudio. An IDE, i.e. a nice interface that makes working with R much easier.

Installing R

Install R from CRAN. CRAN stands for the the Comprehensive R Archive Networks - it is what you will download R packages from.

Installing RStudio

RStudio is an a user-friendly interface to the R programming language. Download RStudio Desktop from [rstudio.com] https://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/. You want to install RStudio Desktop, not RStudio Server, which is something different.