Installing R on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux

Straight from the R project, R is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics, and it has emerged as one of the de-facto languages for statistical and data analysis. For us, it will be the default tool that we use in the first half of the book.

Getting ready Make sure you have a good broadband connection to the Internet as you may have to download up to 200 MB of software.