For this workshop, we ask that you come prepared with a laptop that has the most recent versions of R and RStudio installed, and our workshop materials downloaded to your Desktop.

 

We cannot provide service for installation the day of the workshop.

 

Installation

Even if you already have R installed on your system, you really should make sure its up to date. This ensures that there are no problems due to outdated software. For more details about installing R, RStudio, and keeping everything up to date, UBC’s STAT545 page is an excellent resource.

 

Updating programs

If you already have R and RStudio installed in your computer, you can update them using this resource 3 Methods to update R on RStudio.

 

Version Verification

Once you have installed R, we should verify that you have the correct version.

  1. RStudio on your computer

  2. Enter the following in the R console after the >

     R.version.string == "R version 4.2.1 (2022-06-23 ucrt)"

  3. Make sure the result is [1] TRUE
    (If the result is [1] FALSE, please quit R and try the installation/updating procedure again)