Programming with R: Setup

This lesson assumes you have the R software and the development environment RStudio installed on your computer.

R can be downloaded here.

RStudio can be downloaded here. You will need the Desktop version for your computer.

You also need to download some files to follow this lesson:

  1. Make a new folder in your Desktop called r-novice-inflammation.
  2. Download r-novice-inflammation-data.zip and move the file to this folder.
  3. If it’s not unzipped yet, double-click on it to unzip it. You should end up with a new folder called data.
  4. You can access this folder from the Unix shell with:
$ cd
$ cd Desktop/r-novice-inflammation/data