RStudio Orientation
Explore how to install RStudio and get oriented with its user interface. Learn to navigate the main panes including Source, Console, Environment, and Files/Plots/Help. Understand the basic workflow of creating, running, and saving R scripts to build a solid foundation for your data science projects in R.
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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.