Maths for Stats

R Software
Interuniversity Institute for Biostatistics and statistical
Bioinformatics, Hasselt University

LAST UPDATE: January 15, 2018

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R Software
R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics. It compiles and runs on
a wide variety of UNIX platforms, Windows and MacOS. You can download this software for
free from the website (https://www.r-project.org/). You can also use the basic functions of
R without installing the software using R-Fiddle (http://www.r-fiddle.org/). R-Fiddle is a
tool that provides you with a free and powerful environment to write and run R-code right inside
your browser.

A video explaining the first steps in R and RStudio (Download, Installation and Setup) can be
found here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cX532N_XLIs.

Many introduction video’s explaining the basics of R can be found on Youtube. For example,
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riONFzJdXcs&list=PLqzoL9-eJTNBDdKgJgJzaQcY6OXmsXAHU
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWxoJqTqo08&list=PLjgj6kdf_snYBkIsWQYcYtUZiDpam7ygg

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjuXiBjxryQ
If you prefer to read manuals about R, please visit https://cran.r-project.org/manuals.
html.