R needs an environment in which to run so you need to download (at the very least) the bare-bones R package. But many practitioners also recommend a more full-featured environment like R Studio.

Are you learning the R programming language? Do you want to learn how to do more tasks with R? Check out our Do More With R tutorials below — many with videos shorter than 10 minutes. In the ...

If you’re an R programmer hoping to try GitHub Copilot, you’ll need to use Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code. Here’s how to set up and use VS Code for R.