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Installing and Running R and MATLAB
1.1 Obtaining and installing
R
R can be downloaded for free from The R Project Web site at http://www.r-project.org. Follow the link to CRAN (Comprehensive R Archive Network) to download R. You must first choose a CRAN mirror, i.e., one of the many Web sites around the world that keep copies of the R software. It is probably best to choose one that is geographically close to you.
Once you have chosen a mirror, you can choose which operating system (Linux, Mac OS-X, or Windows) you use. Depending on your operating system, you may then have further choices to make, such as which distribution of Linux or which version of OS-X you use. Note that the source code for R is also freely available for ...
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