

This means that you can now perform any computations with a, such that if you execute a + 1, RStudio will render 2 in the console. If there are more than one links for your country, simply select one:

Select the CRAN mirror site closest to your country.
#WHY MY COMPUTER CANNOT INSTALL R STUDIO HOW TO#
See the next section on how to install both. Just installing RStudio on your personal computer is not enough. Note that RStudio requires the prior installation of the R software provided by CRAN in order to be able to function properly. I use RStudio (and not R) on a daily basis and you will see that all articles on this blog is written in RStudio. RStudio has the advantage of offering both a powerful text editor for writing your code and a place to run the code written in this editor.įor these reasons, I highly recommend using RStudio instead of R. R is a program that runs all your code, and RStudio is another program that allows you to control R in a more comfortable and friendly way. RStudio is an integrated development environment (IDE) for R. a text editor in which to write our code.

At the time of writing, this language is (one of) the leading program in statistics, although not the only programming language used by statisticians. The statistical program R is nothing more than a programming language, mainly used for data manipulation and to perform statistical analyses. Photo by Cris DiNoto What is R and RStudio? R
