This lesson is being piloted (Beta version)

R EDA: Setup

Setup instructions

If you do not have R and Rstudio installed, follow the instructions under the heading Detailed setup instructions, and return to the next part of this page afterwards.

I allready have R and RStudio installed!

In that case all you need to do is the following:

Make sure you have tidyverse and readxl installed:

install.packages("tidyverse")
install.packages("readxl")

Check that they are installed and work:

library(tidyverse)
library(readxl)

Download the example spreadsheet we are working with in this course:

Either using R

download.file("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/KUBDatalab/R-EDA/main/data/flightdata.xlsx",
              destfile = "flightdata.xlsx", mode = "wb")

Or directly from this link

Make sure you can find the file again.

Detailed setup instructions

Where to install?

Please do NOT install R and RStudio on Onedrive or other clouddrives. R will work but you will not be able to install the extensions to R that you will need in this course!

R and RStudio are separate downloads and installations. R is the underlying statistical computing environment, but using R alone is no fun. RStudio is a graphical integrated development environment (IDE) that makes using R much easier and more interactive. You need to install R before you install RStudio. Once installed, because RStudio is an IDE, RStudio will run R in the background. You do not need to run it separately.

After installing both programs, you will need to install the tidyverse package from within RStudio. The tidyverse package is a powerful collection of data science tools within R see the tidyverse website for more details. Follow the instructions below for your operating system, and then follow the instructions to install tidyverse.

Windows

If you already have R and RStudio installed

If you don’t have R and RStudio installed

Now return to the top of this page and finish the instructions under “I allready have R and RStudio installed!”

macOS

If you already have R and RStudio installed

If you don’t have R and RStudio installed

Now return to the top of this page and finish the instructions under “I allready have R and RStudio installed!”

Linux

Now return to the top of this page and finish the instructions under “I allready have R and RStudio installed!”

Online

The company behind RStudio offers a free cloudbased instance of RStudio at Posit Cloud. where you will be able to run R and RStudio in your browser. Sign up with your Google/Gmail account if you have one, or with any other email.

The free version of Posit Cloud places limitations on the number of projects you can work on, and the amount of memory and processing power you can access.

Due to the size of the dataset used in this workshop, Posit Cloud is not an alternative to installing R and Rstudio on you own computer.