Getting R up and running
We want to accomplish two things here: first, install the latest version of R and second, install RStudio, which is an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for R.
Let's start by going to R's homepage at https://www.r-project.org/. This page will look similar to the following screenshot:
You can see that there is a link, download R, and in the News section, the latest R version is 3.2.2 (Fire Safety), which was released on 2015-08-14. Now, click one of the links, either CRAN under Download or download R under Getting Started, and you will come to the following screen, which has CRAN Mirrors:
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