Introduction into R for the European Historical Population Sample summerschool, Cluj-Napoca, Romana, 2015. Aimed at a public of historians with little quantitative skills
3. Download R
Instructions via http://www.r-project.org
Choose a CRAN mirror
http://cran.r-project.org/mirrors.html
close, but active too!
Romania hasn’t gone (yet!)
Click on ‘Download R for Windows’
Follow usual installation procedure
Double click on R
You should now have a working session!
Close the session, do not save workspace image
Richard L. Zijdeman Getting started with R and RStudio
4. RStudio
RStudio is found on http://www.rstudio.com
Download the version for your OS (e.g. windows)
http://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/
Install by double clicking on the downloaded file
Start RStudio by double clicking on the icon
You do not need to start R, before starting RStudio
Richard L. Zijdeman Getting started with R and RStudio