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Topic: Installing/Run R
Audience: Faculty and Staff
Date: March 18, 2005
What is R?
R is available as Free Software under the terms of the Free Software Foundation's GNU General Public License in source code form.
R is a freely available language and environment for statistical computing and graphics which provides a wide variety of statistical and graphical techniques: linear and nonlinear modeling, statistical tests, time series analysis, classification, clustering, etc. It compiles and runs on a wide variety of UNIX platforms and similar systems (including FreeBSD and Linux), Windows and MacOS. Please consult the R project homepage: http://www.r-project.org/ for further information.
How to install R on a PC
Step 1: First you need to ssh (secure shell) to login.oakland.edu (see figure below Step 2).
Step2: When you are prompted
- login as: your email user name and password.
Step3: At the prompt $
- Type (capital) R Example: $ R this will put you at the command mode (much like SPSS).