Many users of R use it from within another free piece of software called RStudio. RStudio is a powerful and productive user interface for R. It’s free and open source, and works great on Windows, Mac, and Linux.
Rstudio's version control functionality is provided by yet another software called git
Our first task, therefore, is to install R, RStudio and git.
Install R
Install R first. Downloads are available at https://cran.rstudio.com/
- Direct link for Windows https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/
- Direct link for MacOS X https://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/
- Direct link for Linux https://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/
Install RStudio
Next, install RStudio.
- Downloads are available at https://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/
Install git
Git is one of the most popular version control systems in the world. It is free and open source.
- Windows & OS X: http://git-scm.com/downloads
- Debian/Ubuntu:
sudo apt-get install git-core - Fedora/RedHat:
sudo yum install git-core
Configure git
After installing git, you need to tell it who you are. Open a terminal window (cmd.exe on windows) and type the following
git config --global user.email "[email protected]"
git config --global user.name "Your Name"
On succesful completion, you should see no output from these commands.