Conclusion
Now R is installed and we will use it through the Rstudio interface. Welcome to the fascinating (and undulating) path of free software for data exploration and analysis. Now let’s walk… you are not alone!
Instituto Argentino de Oceanografía (CONICET UNS) Bahía Blanca, Argentina
Departamento de Biología, Bioquímica y Farmacia UNS, Bahía Blanca, Argentina
School of Biology, Changshu Institute of Technology, Changshu, China
Install R
Install Rstudio
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This is an introduction to the R workshop that we will be conducting at the School of Biology, Changshu Institute of Technology. I apologize for any issues with the Chinese translation on this page and hope it is still understandable.
The main objective of the workshop is to familiarize participants with the R software and introduce the basics of data analysis. Mastering R takes time and practice, but I hope this workshop will help make your first steps easier.
Before the workshop, please download the software. If you can successfully install it in advance, that would be ideal!
R is free and open source software available under a General Public License. It can be installed and used free of charge. But “free software” means more than “free of charge”. Free licenses allow users to use, copy, study and modify the software in any way. In this way, the software grows and improves thanks to the input and ideas of an entire community. This is managed in the form of libraries that can be installed as extensions of the base software, which are published and accessed through the archive network of the R project called CRAN.
RStudio is another software, an integrated development environment for the programming language R (and others languages) available also under a General Public License. It provides the user with an organized interface and tools that facilitate and extend the possibilities of R.
In most cases, the latest version for windows will work fine (the following link will download it):
https://mirrors.bfsu.edu.cn/CRAN/bin/windows/base/R-4.4.2-win.exe
If you have a different operating system (Apple, Linux) or need an older versions of the software, you can find more information at the end of this page.
In most cases, the following link will work fine (for windows)
https://download1.rstudio.org/electron/windows/RStudio-2024.12.1-563.exe
If you need another version (Apple, Linux, older versions of the software) you can find more information at the end of this page.
From now on, we are only going to run the Rstudio software as an interface, so we’re only going to care about having a shortcut to Rstudio at hand.
You can find more information about Installation of R and Rstudio in the following link.
Now R is installed and we will use it through the Rstudio interface. Welcome to the fascinating (and undulating) path of free software for data exploration and analysis. Now let’s walk… you are not alone!