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Installing RStudio

Installing RStudio

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Installing RStudio

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- [Instructor] You have a lot of potential choices 2 for how you work with R, 3 but the most common by far is the RStudio environment, 4 which is made by a company called posit.co, 5 which used to be rstudio.com. 6 The nice thing about RStudio is it's free, 7 and it's very powerful, it's very flexible, and easy to use. 8 So start by going to posit.co. 9 And then when you get there, 10 just click right here on the top right, 11 it says, DOWNLOAD RSTUDIO, 12 that's the name of the app that we're going to be using. 13 RStudio is an IDE 14 or an integrated development environment people program in. 15 And all you need to do is come down here 16 to DOWNLOAD RSTUDIO. 17 This will give you the desktop version, 18 you don't want the server version. 19 We'll click on that, and then it's going to come down here 20 and it's going to tell you, if you haven't done it already, 21 to install the R language first, 22 but we've already…

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