Verzani J. Getting Started with Rstudio

O’Reilly, 2011. — 131 p. — ISBN: 9781449309039This book introduces users to the RStudio Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for using and programming R, the widely used open-source statistical computing environment. RStudio is a separate open-source project that brings many powerful coding tools together into an intuitive, easy-to-learn interface. RStudio runs in all major platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux) and through a web browser (using the server installation). This book should appeal to newer R users, students who want to explore the interface to get the most out of R, and long-time R users looking for a more modern development environment.
RStudio is periodically released as a stable version, and has daily releases in between. This book, as written, describes one of the daily releases—in particular, version 0.95.75; the current stable release is version 0.94.102. Some features described here, such as the project feature, are not currently available in the stable release.
We will begin with a quick overview of R and IDEs before diving into RStudio.