R & RStudio Setup

In this tutorial, you will download and install R & RStudio on your computer. The R & RStudio installation instructions below were adapted from Software Carpentry.

Windows

• Download R for Windows here
• Run the .exe file that was downloaded in the step above.
• Go to the RStudio Download page
• Under Installers select RStudio current version ## - Windows XP/Vista/7/8/10.
• Double click the file to install it.

Once R and RStudio are installed, open RStudio to make sure that you don’t get any error messages.

Mac OS X

• Go to CRAN and click on Download R for (Mac) OS X.
• Select the .pkg file for the version of OS X that you have and the file will download.
• Double click on the file that was downloaded and R will install.
• Go to the RStudio Download page.
• Under Installers select RStudio current version ## - Mac OS X 10.6+ (64-bit) to download it.
• Once it’s downloaded, double click the file to install it.

Once R and RStudio are installed, open RStudio to make sure it works and you don’t get any error messages.

Linux

R is available through most Linux package managers. You can download the binary files for your distribution from CRAN. Or you can use your package manager (e.g. for Debian/Ubuntu run sudo apt-get install r-base and for Fedora run sudo yum install R).

• To install RStudio, go to the RStudio Download page.
• Under Installers select the version for your distribution.
• Once it’s downloaded, double click the file to install it.

Once R and RStudio are installed, open RStudio to make sure that it works and there are no errors when you open it.