BWORKING WITH RSTUDIO
Although the base R application and GUI are all you need to unleash the full suite of available functionality, the bare-bones appearance of the console and code editor can be off-putting to some, especially beginners. One of the best integrated development environments (IDEs) designed specifically to enhance day-to-day use of the R language is RStudio.
Like R, the desktop version of RStudio (RStudio Team, 2015) is free and can be used on Windows, OS X, and Linux systems. Before installing RStudio, you must first have R installed, as described in Appendix A (OS X users will also want XQuartz; see Section A.1). Then, you can ...
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