Drag the RStudio icon into the applications directory. When this is finished, the applications window will open. When the download is complete, click on the downloaded file and it will begin to install. For Macs, select the Macs OS X RStudio installer Mac OS X 10.6+(64-bit). Check that RStudio is working appropriately by opening it from your start menu. R studio is now installed on your computer. On this final page, allow RStudio to create a Start Menu shortcut. If you want RStudio installed elsewhere, browse through your file system, otherwise, it will likely default to the program files folder, this is appropriate. In brief, on the welcome screen, click next. Following the defaults on each of the windows of the wizard is appropriate for installation. Following this, the installation wizard will open. You may be presented with a security warning at this time, allow it to make changes to your computer. When the download is complete, open this executable file to access the installation wizard. For Windows, select the RStudio Installer for the various Windows editions Vista,7,8,10. At this point, the installation process diverges for Macs and Windows, so follow the instructions for the appropriate OS.
You will see a list of installers for supported platforms. We want to download the RStudio Desktop version of the software, so click on the appropriate download under that heading. First, you go to the RStudio download page. Thankfully, installation of RStudio is fairly straight forward. But for anybody just starting out with R coding, the visual nature of this program as an interface for R is a huge benefit.
We will be exploring exactly what RStudio can do for you in future lessons. RStudio is a graphical user interface for R that allows you to write, edit, and store code, generate, view, and store plots, manage files, objects and dataframes, and integrate with version control systems to name a few of its functions. In this lesson, we'll get RStudio installed on your computer. But there are other ways to interface with R, and one of those ways is using RStudio. We've installed R and can open the R interface to input code.
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