Installing R and RStudio

R and RStudio Setup

We will be using R and RStudio to handle data manipulation and exploration, and the first step is going to be getting these tools setup on your computer. It can be a bit confusing at first (we’ll cover this more in the Jumpstart courses!), but R is the coding language that we’ll be using, and RStudio is a piece of software that makes running R much more friendly. In order for everything to work correctly, you will need to download both separately:

Downloading R and RStudio

Link to download R and RStudio (download R first, then RStudio): https://posit.co/download/rstudio-desktop/

Installation Instructions

For detailed instructions providing video walkthroughs of how to download R and RStudio for both Mac and Windows, you can connect to the follow page produced by the UVic Digital Scholarship Commons: https://uviclibraries.github.io/rstudio/pre-workshop.html

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