install

First install R itself and then RStudio. Follow the steps below depending on your operating system.
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Windows

• install R
• install RStudio
• change the .RData settings to enhance reproducibility

Mac

Either

• install homebrew
• in the terminal, run (one after the other)
  brew install --cask r
brew install --cask rstudio
• change the .RData settings to enhance reproducibility

or

• install Xquartz
• from cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx, download the latest release, e.g. R-4.5.2.pkg
• open the file with ‘Installer’ and follow the instructions
• install RStudio
• drag the app to the ‘Applications’ folder
• change the .RData settings to enhance reproducibility

Linux

• open a terminal (CTRL+ALT+T) and paste (CTRL+SHIFT+V) the lines from the Ubuntu instructions one by one, but:
  • instead of the last line, use
    sudo apt install r-base r-base-dev
  • on Linux Mint, replace $(lsb_release -cs) with e.g. jammy or noble
  • on Debian, use this link and key
• download the RStudio deb file and run:
  sudo apt install gdebi-core
sudo gdebi rstudio-*.deb
• change the .RData settings to enhance reproducibility
• if you expect to install many packages with non-R dependencies, check out r2u

Manjaro Linux

• enable AUR
• search for rstudio-desktop and install it. R will be installed with it. This may take up to an hour.
  (Instructions by Frank de Boer).
• change the .RData settings to enhance reproducibility