1 Preface

This short guide teaches you how to:

  1. install the R programming language on your Mac
  2. install the RStudio program on your Mac; you will use RStudio to run analyzes
  3. do easy statistical analyzes by writing R and R Markdown code

Don’t worry if you didn’t understand much of the above. You do not need previous experience in statistical analysis.

Disclaimer: I’m a pure clinician myself, and these pages reflect mainly my own experiences in running statistical analyzes. I present the concepts of statistics here only anecdotally. According to your needs, you can learn more about statistics and how to use R for instance by searching internet.


This short guide is also available in Finnish: painamalla tätä linkkiä pääset tämän oppaan suomenkieliseen versioon.


Thanks:
My warmest thanks to Dr. Joonatan Palmu for proofreading this R guide. Joonatan was also kind enough to write an appendix that deals with version control. I recommend that you familiarize yourself with the topic by reading the appendix right away after reading this short guide.



R guide by Ville Langén is licensed under Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International