Installing RStudio

R is a programming language, and when you download it there is also a basic GUI (graphical user interface) that you can access via the R icon.

A brief overview of installing RStudio can be found here “Getting RStudio on to your computer”

Getting to know RStudio

For a brief overview of RStudio see “Getting started with RStudio”

A good overview of what the different parts of RStudio can be seen in the image in this tweet: https://twitter.com/RLadiesNCL/status/1138812826917724160?s=20

RStudio versus RStudio Cloud

RStudio and RStudio cloud work almost identially, so anything you read about RStudio will apply to RStudio Cloud.