Beginning R 4: From Beginner to Pro

© Matt Wiley, Joshua F. Wiley 2020

M. Wiley, J. F. WileyBeginning R 4 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6053-1_1

1. Installing R

Matt Wiley¹  and Joshua F. Wiley²

(1)

Victoria College, Victoria, TX, USA

(2)

Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

 

You are here to learn statistics, and the first step is installing some program. It can almost feel like a magician’s trick. You need to know some applied statistics, and somehow you need to learn how to program instead. While this can look scary, never fear! This chapter will walk you through step by step what you need to do to have a pain-free installation. Regardless of whether you are learning on your personal computer (be that a PC or Mac) or on your company/institution’s ...