Installing R Studio

Go to R Studio and download R Studio Desktop - graphic interface tool for R language.

R Studio is available for multiple platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux.

You can use R Studio for free under AGPL 3. Paid version with more functionality is also available.

Installing extra packages

One of the biggest advantage of R are thousands of libraries which extend R functionality.

You can browse these packages on CRAN repository.

To install new package in R, type:

install.packages("package name")

For example to install ggplot2 plotting library, type:

install.packages("ggplot2")

After installing and before using the package you should load it to the current session:

library("ggplot2")