Agenda

• R
• R + Microsoft
• RefresheR
• Super R
• Develop R
• Administer R
• Wrap up

R

R is an integrated suite of software facilities for data manipulation, calculation and graphical display

• Open source
• In-memory & single-core (by default)
• Multi-platform
• Extensible environment
• Delivered by the R Foundation, supported by the R Consortium, grown by R developers
• r-project.org

Setup on Windows

• Get R
• Get R Tools
• Get RStudio or Visual Studio + VS R Tools

There’s a package for that

• R is extended with packages of functionality
• More than 8,000 active packages according to MetaCRAN
• Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN)
• Github via devtools

How it hangs together