R Computing

Quick start

• Downloading and installing R
• Downloading and installing RStudio

Tutorials

• Get started with R for Data Science, 2nd ed.
• Dive deeper with Advanced R
• Reproducible workflow with R Markdown (short version)
• Data visualization with ggplot2

Setting up R on Jupyter Notebook

1. Download and install Anaconda
2. Open R and input the following into the console:

install.packages("IRkernel")	# installs IRkernel package
IRkernel::installspec() 	# Tells Jupyter where to find R

To check that things are working, start Jupyter Notebook and verify that both Python and R kernels are available.