R is a statistical programming language, which enables users to process data in a similar way to excel. However R runs on commands rather than points and clicks, that is you use your keyboard much more than your mouse.
Find out more about R from the official website.
R runs on UNIX/Linux, Windows and MacOS.
To install R go to the R project website and click on download R. It will then give you a choice of CRAN mirrors, just choose the location nearest to you. For example if I wanted to download R in Liverpool, United Kingdom, I would choose the CRAN mirror in Imperial College London, UK.
While R can be used by itself without the need to install any additional software, there is one other thing worth downloading: R Studio. This is an Integrated Development Environment which basically means it makes it a whole lot easier to work with R.
Once you have downloaded R, you can download R Studio from their website. Their open source version is free.
All the work for this bootcamp will use RStudio with R version 4.1.0.
To start, open the R Studio app.
Start a new project by clicking File > New Project... > New Directory > R bootcamp, then choose where you would like to create this project on your computer. Click Create Project and away we go.
In order to process data R, like any other programming language, needs to know where that data is.
Therefore before we start we need to know two things
Since we have already started a project we can make this much simpler.
In RStudio to your right there is a button saying New Folder. Create the following new folders in your directory:
data/data_output/img_output/scripts/