2.1 Installing the software

Start by installing R on your computer. Go to the R website and click on “download R” in the Getting Started section. Find a mirror site of your choice (we use Statlib at Carnegie Mellon, but do whatever you like). From there click on your operating system and follow the instructions for running the Setup Wizard. Windows users: you want the “base” distribution.

After you complete the R installation, it’s time to get RStudio. Go to the RStudio site and click “Download RStudio.” From there, select the RStudio Desktop, Open Source License. Select the appropriate installer for your platform, and install.