From the course: R for Data Science: Analysis and Visualization

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Installing RStudio

Installing RStudio

- [Instructor] Now that you have R installed on your computer, you'll also want to install RStudio. That's the environment we're going to use throughout this course to interact with R. Fortunately, this is easy to install and it's free. What you need to do is first go posit.co. That's the company that makes RStudio. And when you get there, you might be tempted to go to Products, but that links to many of their other things. You want to go instead to Open Source and then come down here to Download RStudio. When we click on that, it'll give you links here and it lets you download RStudio. Now, Download RStudio Server, that's for the big industrial ones, we're not doing that. We're just dealing with RStudio Desktop. So we click on that and then when we come down here, it's going to first make sure that you've installed R, but we've already done that, so we're good. You simply come over and click Download RStudio Desktop. It recognizes what operating system you're on, I'm on a Mac. You…

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