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To install R and RStudio on your own computer, follow these instructions. They are specific to Windows but
Mac users can easily make the necessary changes.
1. Download R Go to http://cran.r-project.org/ and choose the platform on which you will be using R.
After selecting your platform, select the base distribution.
Download the program.
2. Run the program that you have downloaded to install R. It may start running itself or you may have to click
on the name of the file that you downloaded. You will have many choices. You can ignore them all and simply
keep clicking next and you will get a reasonable installation of R.
3. To run R, click on the R icon on the desktop. You should see
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4. To install RStudio, go to http://www.rstudio.org/ and click on download. Then run the file that you have
downloaded. You should now have RStudio installed and you can run it just by clicking on it.