In the course we will use the R statistical program to conduct analysis. The current version of R is R version 3.4.4 (2018-03-15). However, we will generally use RStudio to interact with R. Instructions to download and install R and RStudio are provided below. For a brief history of R, check out Nick Thieme’s article, R generation.

Below are links to R and RStudio for Windows and Mac. Once downloaded, install these programs. Once installed, you will only use RStudio, but for it to work you must also install R.

• Download installers for Windows: R and RStudio
• Download installers for Mac: R and RStudio

Once you have installed these programs, open RStudio and cut and paste the following commands into the Console:

install.packages(c('tidyverse', 'devtools', 'openintro', 'fivethirtyeight', 
                   'likert', 'OIdata', 'psych', 'shiny', 'knitr', 'markdown'))
devtools::install_github('jbryer/DATA606')