What is R?
R is a popular and free software environment for statistical computing and graphics, is open source.
R is available as Free Software under the terms of the Free Software Foundation’s GNU General Public License.
R is currently available as a deployable package, and is installed by default on all of our teaching stations. The most current deployable version of R is 34.61.30, 64-bit.
Package Management/Availability
Starting in Fall 20202021, packages for R (and RStudio) will be managed/revised on a per-semester basis, and not modified during the semester. If you teach with R and discover a package which you wish to use, please notify Whitman IT at least two weeks prior to the start of the semester which you wish to use a given package, so that the installation/deployment may be modified to include it.
What Packages are available, and where?
The following packages are included with the Whitman deployment of R (currently distributed to all Labs, Classrooms, Teaching Stations, and Remote Environments) and represent both packages which have been requested by faculty, and their respective dependencies of those requested packages:
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not be pre-loaded on Whitman Computers. R Packages are installed in the User's H Drive, and should follow the user, so faculty are encouraged to assign their students an exercise to prepare their R Environment for the semester prior to utilizing R.
Changing R Version on Windows Desktops
Hold down the Control key during the launch of RStudio, this will cause the R version selection dialog to display at startup. Then Click "Choose a specific version of R:". Select the version of R you wish to use and click "OK". R will now open in the version you selected.
Changing R Studio to work on a different R version in RDS
Log in to RDS.SYR.EDU
Open R Studio
Navigate to Tools → Global Options
Under General ---- R Version: Click on Change...
Choose the 3rd Radio button : Choose a Specific Version of R. Choose the 64 Bit option of the Version you would like to run.
R Studio will prompt you to restart R Studio, and your desired Version of R will now be running.
