Macs: Click the apple in the top left of your screen and choose “About This Mac.” The latest software to date is Mac OS Big Sur (version 11.1). If you do not have this updated, I strongly suggest you do so before installing R/RStudio. Below the information you can click “Software Update…” and it will lead you to the latest updates, if you have any.
Windows: You probably have Windows 8 or 10. To get more information on Windows 10, click the start button and Settings icon. Then, click System and then “About” in the left pane. It will give you information such as whether you have a 32 or 64 bit processor (which is helpful to know for further installation). If you have Windows 8, you can Click “Settings” and then click “Change PC settings” from the sidebar. Then, click “PC and devices,” and finally click “PC info.”
Follow this link: http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN/ and choose your platform (Windows, Mac, or Linux). The latest version of R (30 December 2022) is 4.1.2 (“Bird Hippie”).
If you already have R and RStudio installed, (perhaps from a previous class or you actively use it) verify it is the latest version: it is listed at the top of the console when you open RStudio. If you would like to keep the packages in your library, check out this help page: https://www.r-bloggers.com/2017/05/upgrade-r-without-losing-your-packages/. For RStudio, go to Help -> check for updates.
For Windows, click the “install R for the first time”, which is blue and bold next to “base.” Then ‘Download R 4.1.2 for Windows.’ If you download and install with the defaults, it will install both the 32 and 64 bit R versions. You can delete the one that does not match with your processor (see above on how to check that info).
For Mac, choose the file that corresponds to your Mac OS X system version. If you have everything up to date, you can download and install 4.1.2 (just click and open the .pkg file).
For old Macs (where you cannot update to the latest OS X software): Go to the same link https://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN/ and click “Download for (Mac) OSX”. Scroll down and you will see a list of releases. Choose the .pkg file that corresponds to your software. If you have a version higher than 10.13 (High Sierra), you can choose the latest release.
Go here: https://rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/#download
install.packages("rmarkdown") into the Console and press
return. If prompted type ‘a’ (and press return) if it asks which
packages to compile and update. If you receive an error, restart RStudio
and type ‘n’Not opening Rmarkdown and stuck on installation of extra packages? Restart RStudio and click “No” when it asks to install packages that require compilation
stringi error? Type
install.packages("stringi",type="mac.binary") into the
console and restart RStudio
XCode problem (“invalid active developer path”)? Manually install XCode using “xcode-select –install” in Terminal. Documentation for the fix here: https://ma.ttias.be/mac-os-xcrun-error-invalid-active-developer-path-missing-xcrun/
Luckily there is a very nice package that was created for the easy installation of LaTeX in RStudio!
install.packages("tinytex") into the Console and
press return to run the code.tinytex::install_tinytex()
into the Console and press return. This should take a bit of time
depending on the speed of your computer.For some reason, even after a successful installation, sometimes it shows some error/warning messages at the end. Ignore them and check whether it works here:
To check whether it was installed properly
1. Go to File -> New File -> RMarkdown…
2. Then click PDF as the default output option. It will give you example
text in the file.
3. Press the Knit button (with the yarn icon) and name the file whatever
you want (Test is always a good option) and put it on your
Desktop.
4. It may take a couple of minutes, but you should have a PDF with the
same file name (Test.pdf for example) on your Desktop, if it
works.
5. If it says Error: LaTeX failed to compile, that means the
tinytex installation did not work. Make sure you ran both
lines!
author identity unknown . We’ll need to first
introduce you to RStudio and Git with the following instructions.From RStudio, open the Terminal tab (next to your Console tab), and type this in, filling in your email and username:
git config --global user.email "your.email.edu"
git config --global user.name "Username"This is particular important to complete if you run into an error stating: “remote: Support for password authentication was removed on August 13, 2021. Please use a personal access token instead.”.
If you continue to run into errors or are seeing an error like “Error: Bad Credentials (401)”, then you should make sure that you have an updated Personal Access Token with the correct scopes. Here is one option to fix this:
You may need the following instructions for later, but not for the early part of the course:
## Navigating the Shell Lecture 24 (Windows Users)
When you install cygwin, it creates folders wherever you chose to install it; however when you open the cygwin program, it does not automatically have access to your computer root and files
* You will have to add a 'link' from your computer root to the cygwin folder: do this by typing in the following code (replacing <username> with your Windows user name) and naming the link (in this case it is named Home). A directory will be created where you type this so at the start of your session it will be in your root cygwin folder:
ln -s "/cygdrive/c/Users/<username>" Home
cd Home
ls
* In this lecture (Lecture 25D Navigating the Shell), the command `r` does not work in cygwin. I believe it needs a path to the R.exe file, so I would advise windows users to skip this.
Please contact me you are having any additional issues installing these programs: lvash@uvm.edu