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R Quick Syntax Reference: A Pocket Guide to the Language, APIs and Library
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R Quick Syntax Reference: A Pocket Guide to the Language, APIs and Library

by Margot Tollefson
April 2019
Beginner to intermediate
369 pages
6h 17m
English
Apress
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© Margot Tollefson 2019
Margot TollefsonR Quick Syntax Referencehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4405-0_1

1. Downloading R and Setting Up a File System

Margot Tollefson1 
(1)
Stratford, IA, USA
 

The first step in using R and R Studio is to download the two programs from the Internet. R must be downloaded first. R and R Studio can be downloaded for the modern operating systems Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. In this chapter, you will learn how to download and install R plus the 30 basic packages and R Studio, as well as how to install other packages and update R. Updating packages in R Studio is covered in Chapter 2. You will also learn how to use R in individual folders within the file system of the computer.

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