R tutorial

There will be an R tutorial on Thur June 14, 1 pm in the Cave. Please feel free to bring your laptops (it’s actually recommended). In preparation for the tutorial, please download and install R from here (or some other mirror):

http://cran.cnr.berkeley.edu/

and ALSO please download and install RStudio from here (after you install R):

http://rstudio.org/download/desktop

RStudio has a lot of the R-specific integrated development environment (IDE) functionality out of the box. There are some other choices out there that you might want to pursue later on, but RStudio is a great place to start (and also stop :-)): it’s available for all platforms (Win, Mac, Linux), it’s stable and requires very little customization to set up a pleasant and functional working environment. We’ll go over that customization at the beginning of the tutorial.

Install R and RStudio, then open R-script-1 (see “R-tutorial” folder under “Resources” on the eCommons pages for the fall 2012 Bayesian Inference seminar) with RStudio and run the first 2-3 commands to make sure everything works. See you on Thur.