

Where can I get support? OIT offers Full Support for R and RStudio. How can I learn it? OIT offers workshops each semester and there are a set of two-minute tutorials at the “twotorials” web site. The main R website provides links to reference materials including FAQs, manuals, support “mailing lists”, and books. People with extreme computational requirements can also run R batch jobs on ISAAC.

There is no simultaneous user limit for their use. They are both also available on OIT’s server, and on the computers in the OIT public computer labs. Where can I run it? Being open source, you can install R and RStudio, on any Linux, Mac or Windows computer. Here are the license details for R and RStudio. What can I use it for? Since R and RStudio are open source software, anyone can use them for almost any purpose. However, its data usually must fit into your computer’s main memory, limiting the size of data sets it can analyze. R is very extensible and supports a wide range of analytic and visualization methods. The most popular way to run R is through RStudio, a free and open source program which includes a code editor, as well as debugging and visualization tools. While it includes a simple code editor, it can be controlled through many other packages. What is it? R is a free, open-source software environment for statistical computing, data management, and graphics.
