R Basics

Installing R on Windows

Installation

The first thing you need to do to get started with R is to install it on your computer. R works on pretty much every platform available, including the widely available Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux systems. If you want to watch a step-by-step tutorial on how to install R for Mac or Windows, you can watch these video:

 1 – 1 – Installing R on Windows.mp4

1 – 2 – Installing R on a Mac.mp4

There is also an integrated development environment available for R that is built by RStudio. This IDE has a nice editor with syntax highlighting, there is an R object viewer, and there are a number of other nice features that are integrated. Download RStudio from www.rstudio.com and install it to your machine. Screenshot of the IDE is shown below.

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