Set up R and RStudio

To process CourseKata data, we recommend using R or R Markdown as we provide our processing scripts in R. On this page, you’ll find information on how to set up R and RStudio for CourseKata data processing.

R is an open-source coding language commonly used by statisticians. Open source code is software that is available for anyone to see, modify, and distribute. R is developed as a public and open collaboration (so anyone can contribute to it), and is made freely available.

RStudio is an application that lets you write and run R on your computer. It is an IDE (Integrated Development Environment). Setting up RStudio is an essential step to using our resources and processing the CourseKata data.

Follow this link for helpful instructions and resources on how to set up R and RStudio for your data processing and analysis needs.

Once you have R and RStudio set up on your computer, you may want it to work just like CourseKata’s CKCode or our jupyter notebooks delivered through CKHub. You’ll have to install some packages to do so. To find out which packages we use, check out our various docker stacks. The requirements.r files can be downloaded and run in RStudio.