RStudio Orientation

Learn the layout of RStudio—how to install it and how to use it.

RStudio is the most popular integrated development environment (IDE) for the R programming language. In this appendix, we’ll walk through the process of installing RStudio and provide a basic orientation on using RStudio.

Installing RStudio

The installation process for RStudio can be done in a few steps, which can be found on the RStudio Desktop download page. Note that before installing RStudio, it’s necessary to download and install R itself, as indicated on the webpage.

Getting oriented in RStudio

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