Setup

Please ensure that you have the latest version of R installed on your laptop. This is important because some R packages used during the course may not install correctly if R is not up to date.

macOS users
Install R by downloading and running this .pkg file from CRAN.

Windows users
Install R by downloading and running this .exe file from CRAN.

Please also install RStudio Desktop. RStudio is a free and open-source integrated development environment (IDE) for R.

Testing whether the installation was successful

Copy and paste the R code below into RStudio’s console pane. Then hit Enter to run it.

install.packages("tidyverse")
library(ggplot2)
ggplot(mtcars, aes(mpg, wt)) +
  geom_point()

If the plot below appears in the output pane of RStudio the installation was successful.

## Registered S3 methods overwritten by 'ggplot2':
##   method         from 
##   [.quosures     rlang
##   c.quosures     rlang
##   print.quosures rlang