R is the world’s most powerful programming language for statistical computing, machine learning and graphics as well as a thriving global community of users, developers and contributors. R is free, open-source software distributed and maintained by the R-project. The source code is available under the terms of the Free Software Foundation’s GNU General Public License for a variety of platforms.

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Installation

• Download and install from http://cran.r-project.org/
• It is recommended to also install RStudio as a user interface

Getting started

• At the very least, take a crash-course on R
• or take this 4-hour introductory course on R from DataCamp
• or find some tutorial that suits you among the comprehensive contributed documentation, even in other languages
• Bookmark Quick-R as a reference site for help