Prerequisites
You must install R and RStudio on your computer in order to complete this course. These are two different applications that must be installed separately before they can be used together:
R is the core underlying programming language and computing engine that we will be learning in this course
RStudio is an interface into R that makes many aspects of using and programming R simpler
Both R and RStudio are available for Windows, macOS, and most flavors of Unix and Linux. Please download the version that is suitable for your computing setup.
Throughout the course, we will make use of numerous R add-on packages that must be installed over the Internet. Packages can be installed using the install.packages() function in R. For example, to install the tidyverse package, you can run
in the R console.