If you do not install your packages to a personal library, you will not be able to update packages when new releases come out. If prompted, Windows users should install their packages to a personal library. RStudio does not always install the packages to the correct directory. Important notes about installing packages: When installing new packages for R, make sure to install them from R (not RStudio).

Install.packages(c(‘installr’,’car’, ‘foreign’, ‘MASS’, ‘psych’, ‘sciplot’, ‘gplots’, ‘pwr’, ‘gvlma’, ‘relimp’, ‘lmSupport’, ‘effects’, ‘mediation’, ‘Hmisc’, ‘lme4’, ‘AICcmodavg’, ‘pbkrtest’, ‘plyr’, ‘reshape2’)) These packages can be installed with the following command in R: The following additional packages should be installed from CRAN by Curtin Lab users and PSY610/710 studentsĬar, foreign, MASS, psych, sciplot, gplots, pwr, gvlma, relimp, lmSupport, effects, mediation, Hmisc, lme4, AICcmodavg, pbkrtest If you are using Windows Vista, read about these special issues Recommended Packages for Curtin Laboratory and PSY610/710 Students Just use the 64 if you have a 64-bit system (which is most likely).

Put your browser in the bottom right, taking up the other two thirds of the vertical space.Go to the CRAN website to download the precompiled binary distributions for the base package of the latest version of R for your operating system (the top box on this webpage).Ĭurrent versions install both a 386 and 64x flavor.Sometimes I will ask you to go full screen on Zoom, practice going from full screen to top right corner. Put Zoom in the top left corner, taking up about a third of the vertical space.Inside RStudio, grab the vertical bar between the Console and the Files/Plot windows and squish it to the right, until you mostly just see the Console.Put RStudio on the left half of your monitor.If you have a single monitor, then you need to be a little more organised. If you have dual monitors, you’re all set, put RStudio on one and everything else on the other. Under ‘Editor theme’ chose ‘Idle Fingers’ (or another dark theme).In RStudio go to Tools > Global Options.To differentiate the two visually we recommend you change your RStudio theme to something with a dark background. The lessons look a lot like RStudio, and it is easy to get confused between your own code and the lesson code. Setting up your screen well from the start will help get you coding fast, we strongly recommend you try the setups recommended below.

Downloading r and r studio