Setup

Tasks to complete before the first class

1. Install the latest versions of R and RStudio on your computer.

   • The latest version of R can be downloaded from: https://cran.r-project.org/index.html

   • RStudio is a convenient GUI “front end” for working with R. You can download the free, open-source version of “RStudio Desktop” from this link: https://posit.co/download/rstudio-desktop/

   • Quarto is a publishing system to make nice reports to share your R code. Download it from this link: https://quarto.org/docs/get-started/

As of May 2024 the latest version of R is 4.4.0, and the latest version of RStudio is 2024.04.1-748. If you have an older version of R on your computer, make sure to update to these most recent versions.

2. Read “Introduction to R and RStudio” in the Software Carpentry lesson R for Reproducible Scientific Analysis