Wednesday, February 13, 2019

Installation of R & R Studio

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The purpose of this post is to help in installation & configuration of R & R Studio for execution of R programming

OS for R installation & configuration


Following OS can be used for R:

  1. Windows
  2. Linux
  3. Mac OS X
For Windows &  Mac OS X, download pre-configured binaries of installation packages.

However for Linux, the installation can be done through regular package management tool (Ubuntu) for Debian distribution. Also there is option of compilation & installation using R source code as R is open source.

Installation Source:

R can be installed from following sources:
  • CRAN website: http://cran.r-project.org/
  • RStudio: https://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/

Windows R installation through CRAN website:

The package related to installation of R for Windows can be downloaded from:
https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/
  • Download R 3.X.X (Currently 3.5.2 is available) for Windows [However for this blog post I am using old screenshot related to R 3.2.2 which I saved earlier for creating this blog but being carried away with other work related activities]
  • Run the setup with local admin privileges



Once installed open R GUI/Console from shortcut created on your desktop or from start menu




Using R Studio for Windows based R installation:

  • Download R Studio from https://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/
  • Run the installation package
  • Open RStudio to verify the installation.

Just to summarize R Studio GUI these are following section of R Studio:
R Commands can be written in R Script window on right top section of above picture. Eventually these commands can be saved as .R File extension

Also R commands & syntax can be written in R Console window in mid section of above pic. This portion also show results & output/logs

Beside this R Studio include environmental panel, file/packages tab, viewer panel



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