R, RStudio and RStudio Cloud
Kamarul Imran Musa, Wan Nor Arifin, Tengku Muhammad Hanis · 2023
This chapter introduces the R programming language and RStudio integrated development environment (IDE). It shows how to install R on their local machine, and RStudio IDE on their local machine. RStudio is an IDE for R. It includes a console and syntax-highlighting editor that supports direct code execution and tools for plotting, history, debugging and workspace management. RStudio Cloud by RStudio facilitates the learning of R. Anyone can sign up and start using RStudio on the cloud. It is one of the quickest ways to learn R. There are a number of graphical user interface (GUI) versions of R, also known as R GUI. The interface resembles a popular statistical software SPSS. For example, there are Bluesky statistics and jamovi. jamovi is an interesting software. It is a new ‘third generation’ statistical spreadsheet. It is designed from the ground up to be easy to use, it is a compelling alternative to costly statistical products such as SPSS and SAS.