Computing access

This course focuses on teaching you to program in R, so you will need to locally install R & RStudio to be able to complete the coursework for this class.

Equipment

The Statistics Studio was recently remodeled and there are no longer desktop computers in the Studio for you to use. There are monitors you can plug a laptop into, but you are required to bring a laptop to class.

Chromebooks and iPads

These devices will not be sufficient to use R. If this requirement is limiting for you, please contact me ASAP.

Statistical Software: R and RStudio

We will (obviously) be using the R statistical software throughout this course. In addition, you are required to use RStudio, a companion integrated developer environment (IDE). Both R and R Studio are freely available.

• You can download the most recent version of R here: https://cran.r-project.org/

• You can download the most recent version of RStudio here: https://posit.co/download/rstudio-desktop/

Free Quarto Install

When you update / install RStudio, the IDE now automatically installs Quarto. So, you do not need to also install Quarto.

Version Control

We will also be using version control in this course. This requires you to do the following:

• install Git (https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Getting-Started-Installing-Git)
• create a GitHub account (https://github.com/)