Rstudio

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Installing Rstudio

Linux (debian, ubuntu)

We provide here only instructions for debian-based distributions. Feel free to contribute to this document to provide up-to-date information for other distributions (e.g.n redhat, fedora).

Today, the stable versions of the most common distributions provide recent enough versions of emacs and org-mode:

If your distribution is older than this, well, it may be a good time for upgrading…

Installing R

Beforehand, you need to install the R language and convenient packages by running (as root):

apt-get update ; sudo apt-get install r-base r-cran-knitr r-cran-ggplot2 

Alternatively, if the installation of r-cran-gplot2 or r-cran-knitr fails, you may want to install them locally (through the R packaging system) and manually by running the following commands in R (or Rstudio):

install.packages("knitr")
install.packages("ggplot2")

If you plan to export pdf documents with LaTeX, you probably also want to run (as root):

apt-get update ; apt-get install texlive-base

Installing rstudio

Rstudio is unfortunately not packaged within debian so the easiest is to download the corresponding debian package on the Rstudio webpage and then to install it manually (depending on when you do this, you can obviously change the version number). Here is how to install it:

cd /tmp/
wget https://download1.rstudio.org/rstudio-xenial-1.1.453-amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i rstudio-xenial-1.1.453-amd64.deb
sudo apt-get update ; sudo apt-get -f install # to fix possibly missing dependencies

Mac OSX and Windows

Some instructions on installing R and knitr must be missing. This should be tested and improved.

Download and install rstudio from the Rstudio webpage by choosing the right operating system.

Then open Rstudio and type the following commands in the console to install knitr and ggplot2:

install.packages("knitr")
install.packages("ggplot2")

Installing Git

Linux (debian, ubuntu)

We provide here only instructions for debian-based distributions. Feel free to contribute to this document to provide up-to-date information for other distributions (e.g.n redhat, fedora).

Run (as root):

apt-get update ; apt-get install git

Mac OSX and Windows

Rstudio and git/github/gitlab

We may want to redo a screencast in French for this

Alternatively, we can point to: http://www.geo.uzh.ch/microsite/reproducible_research/post/rr-rstudio-git/

  • Part 1/item 2: Setup Git in RStudio
  • Part 2 (to adapt to gitlab)
  • Part 3

Cheat Sheets

The Rstudio team has created a lot of good material and tutorials. You should definitively look at the Cheat sheets webpage. In particular you want to have look at the ones on:

In case it helps, here are some (sometimes outdated) French versions of these documents: