Midwest Big Data Summer School 2021

Modules on R and Graphics

There are two ways you can follow along with the materials:

• hands on:
  • download the material using the green button on the top right .
  • double-click the file Start-here.Rproj to start RStudio with the right material
  • go into folder 01-introduction-to-R and open the file 0-getting started.Rmd in the knitr folder.
• hands-on (alternative):
  • in case you are experiences problems with the installation, you can make use of the RStudio cloud server.
• relaxed approach: follow along the slides: slides for programming with data

Installation instructions

Installing R

• Make sure to have R version 4.x.x installed

• Go to http://www.r-project.org/

• Click the CRAN link on the left, and pick a download site (0-Cloud is a good choice)

• Choose link based on your OS

• On Windows, choose the "base" subdirectory to install R.

• On OS X, choose the .pkg file to install R.

Installing RStudio

• RStudio 1.4.xxx supports both R and python

• Browse to https://www.rstudio.com/

• Mouse over Products and click RStudio

• Choose RStudio Desktop

• Click Download RStudio Desktop

• Choose the installer appropriate for your platform