What do you know already?

• Excel, Numbers, Some sort of spreadsheet software
• SAS, SPSS, Minitab
• Any other programming language
• R
• A text editor

Hopefully this is done already. Otherwise for Windows or OSX:

• Go to http://www.r-project.org/
• From CRAN, pick a download site
• Choose link based on your Operation System (OS)
• Choose the "base" subdirectory to install R.
• "contrib" is useful for installing packages on computers without internet access
• "Rtools" is needed for package development

• RStudio
• RGui [Windows/Mac] or Command line [Linux]
• Notepad++ (NpptoR) [Windows only]
• Emacs + ESS
• Eclipse + StatET

We will be using Rstudio for the duration of this course. However, you are free to use any IDE of your choice.