1.2 Installing RStudio

RStudio is an integrated development environment (IDE) for R. While you could run R on its own, RStudio provides many nice features that make writing and running R code more user-friendly.

DO: Install RStudio Desktop on your personal computer from this link: Download RStudio.

• Download the FREE version of RStudio Desktop, not the Server version.
• If you are prompted to install Git, you can choose to not install as it is optional for this text. However, installing it is a good idea as someday you may learn to use version control.