STAT 587 (Engineering) Lab R/RStudio Installation

Although R and RStudio will be available in the lab, you will likely want to install R and RStudio on your own personal laptop, desktop, or both. Below are installation instructions for R and RStudio.

Install R (may require administrator privileges)

Please go to http://www.r-project.org/ and click on download R. You will be asked to select a CRAN mirror. I select https://mirror.las.iastate.edu/CRAN/ for obvious reasons. In the download and install R section, click on the correct link depending on your operating system: Linux, (Mac) OS X, or Windows.

Windows

Click on base and then the link to Download R X.X.X for Windows (where the X will be numbers representing the current version of R). Install this program like any other program on Windows using all the defaults.

(Mac) OS X

Click on the appropriate .pkg file depending on which version of Mac OS X you are using. Install this program like any other program on OS X using all the defaults.

Linux

If you are using Linux, then I trust you know what you are doing. You can install R from source or you can use a package manager.

Install RStudio (may require administrator privileges)

The installation of RStudio is optional, but highly recommended. It provides an improved interface to R and has projects which help to quickly switch between (oddly enough) projects. Go to http://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/ and choose the correct platform under Installers for ALL Platforms. Install like any other program.

Now, whenever you want to run R, just run RStudio.