Installing R/R-Studio


If you are brand new, consider skimming through What are R and R-Studio

To use it on your own computer we need to do two things.

  • First, teach the computer to ‘speak R’.

  • Secondly download the RStudio software.

In this section, I first include a video where I go through it - and then written instructions going over the same thing.



Video instructions

Here’s a video where I install R/R-Studio on my mac. It should take less than 10 minutes to follow along & there are subtitles. I will try to also put up another for my windows machine.

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0.1 Written Instructions

If you’re not a video sort of person, here are written instructions that were also included in homework 1. You can see the pdf below or download it here: Open the full diagnostics guide (PDF)