Chapter 1 Setting up
This tutorial will help you set up your computer to use R. It is for you if you need to:
- Install R on your computer
- Install the RStudio IDE
- Install the
tidyverseR package
You can skip this tutorial if you’ve already done these things.
1.1 R
Learn how to set up R and RStudio on your machine. I will also demonstrate how to install R packages from CRAN, and install the tidyverse package.
1.2 RStudio
1.2.1 The RStudio IDE
You can use only R, but using RStudio can save you a lot of headache and a lot of time! Best analogy ever: https://moderndive.com/2-getting-started.html#r-rstudio
https://happygitwithr.com/install-r-rstudio.html
RStudio is an Integrated Development Environment for R. What does that mean? Well, if you think of R as a language, which it is, you can think of RStudio as a program that helps you write and work in the language. RStudio makes programming in R much easier and I suggest that you use it!
