I didn’t have any problems with the installation thanks to a video produced by Dr. Webb (2014). It is a bigger package than what I thought it would be, so it can take a few minutes to download, depending on your download speed and internet connection. Thus,
(1) For proper installation of R, you need to have administrative access on your computer.
(2) Watch this video, to get a step-by-step instructions and an online tutorial to installing R and its graphical Integrated Development Environment (IDE).
- Note: The application for R 32x and 64x can be found at http://cran.r-project.org/
- Note: The Rstudio free “Desktop” graphical IDE can be found at http://www.rstudio.com/
(3) Once installed Use the manual for this application at this site: http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-intro.html
Once, I installed the software and the graphical IDE, I continued to follow along with the video to use the prepopulated Cars data under the “datasets” Packages, and I got the same result as shown in the video. I also would like to note that Dr. Webb (2014) also had checked the Packages: “datasets,” “graphics,” “grDevices,” “methods,” and “stats” in the video, which can be hard to see depending on your video streaming resolution.
Resources:
Webb, J. (2014). Installing and Using the “R” Programming Language and RStudio. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77PgrZSHvws&feature=youtu.be
Dr. Skylar (Sky) Hernandez 