If you are a student at the University of Maryland, College Park and a student taking a course or conducting research in Behavioral and Social Science (BSOS), the easiest way to access R and RStudio is through the BSOS Jupyter Hub. You will need to log in with your UMD credentials, but this site does not require any additional passcode or login information.
R software is easy to install on a variety of computers running different installations of Windows, Mac, and Linux operating systems. You can download R at the following website: https://www.r-project.org/
RStudio is an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for the R language. This allows programmers to code in R in a friendly and user-friendly graphical user interface. There are other R IDEs, but RStudio is our favorite and also the most popular. You can download RStudio at the following website: https://www.rstudio.com/. In addition to the video below, you can also refer to a .pdf file of instructions.
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Have a Google Chromebook and can't download R? Not a problem! There is a cloud version you can use and can create an account at RStudio Cloud and view their guidebook here.