Chapter 11 RStudio Desktop

Figure 11.1: The RStudio logo

Very few people use the R desktop program directly; rather they use an Interactive Development Environment (IDE) which talks to the underling R program and provides important features not in the basic R download.

RStudio is probably the most popular and is available free at: https://bit.ly/RSdesktop . There are Windows and Mac versions - make sure you get the correct one.

If you need more help see this video from RStudio: https://vimeo.com/203516968

Note that the R icon is a dark blue “R”.

In contrast, the RStudio icon is a light blue circle with a white “R” .

(#fig:rstudio.logo1)The RStudio logo

Here’s another walkthrough of the process of downloading RStudio: https://youtu.be/M8N5QdkQRW4