R

R is a language for statistical computing and graphics. R's use in the data science and econometrics community has taken off over recent years and (at a bare minimum) should be considered as an open source replacement to Stata.

Installing R for Mac Users

Go to the R homepage and download the installer for your operating system.

The current version for Mac and Windows is R version 4.3.1.

Once you have installed R, verify your install.

Installing R for Linux Users

First, we need to add a repository so that our operating system knows where to install the most recent version of R from.

Enter the following into the terminal and press Return:

wget -qO- https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/marutter_pubkey.asc | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/cran_ubuntu_key.asc
sudo add-apt-repository "deb https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu $(lsb_release -cs)-cran40/"

Now, update to get the package manifests from the new repository:

sudo apt-get update

We can now install R as from the terminal by entering the following:

sudo apt-get install r-base r-base-dev

Install the multi-threaded OpenBlas library to get higher performance for linear algebra operations:

sudo apt-get install libopenblas-base

Now, verify your install.

Installing R for Windows Users

We are installing R with winget:

winget install -e --id RProject.R

Now, verify your install.

Verifying your Install of R

Open a terminal and enter:

R --version

followed by pressing Return. The expected return begins with:

R version 4.2.x (2022-xx-xx) -- "Some Funky Name"