Among the new major new features and changes in the 3.5 release series are. One of the first steps to learning R is to have it downloaded and installed on your computer. Major new features of the 3.5 series, compared to 3.4. In this post I’ll show you how to do that and how to download and install RStudio-a key tool for using R, and how I do all my work and tutorials. If you want to follow along with a video tutorial, you can click on the image below where you can watch the first lesson in my full course on the Basics of R (for ecologists).įor starters, R is a free open-source programming language used for organizing, analyzing, and visualizing data. Its versatility is highlighted by the large number of user-created packages that it comes with, which provide useful functions and guides that anyone can use (e.g., found on CRAN). So R is the programming language itself, and it comes with an environment or console that can read and execute your code. You could code in R without using RStudio, as you can see in the image below. That’s what the plain R console looks like I just loaded up some data, viewed the first few rows, and renamed the columns.īy comparison, RStudio is a more versatile IDE, or Integrated Development Environment.
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