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## Install the R runtime
Visit the [CRAN homepage](https://cran.r-project.org/). There you will find download links for Linux, Mac OSX, and Windows. Download and run the installer for your operating system.

## Install the RStudio IDE
## Install the RStudio IDE (Recommended)
RStudio is a popular cross-platform integrated development environment (IDE) for programming in R (and also supports other languages like Python, JavaScript, and Markdown). Using RStudio will make writing your code solutions and running tests easier.

Download and install the [current stable version of RStudio](https://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/). Or, alternatively, get the [preview version](https://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/preview/) of an upcoming release.

## Install the Visual Studio Code extension for R (Alternative)
The R extension for Visual Studio Code supports extended syntax highlighting, code completion, linting, formatting, interacting with R terminals, viewing data, plots, workspace variables, help pages, managing packages and working with R Markdown documents.

Download and install the [current version of R extension](https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/languages/r)

## Install the R packages for running tests
The test runner for the specs is the [`testthat`](https://github.com/hadley/testthat) library from Hadley Wickham, which is a popular choice for R package authors.

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install.packages("testthat")
```

While it is unlikely that you will _need_ to install packages to solve the exercism problems, you may want to bring in a general-purpose utility packages like [`magrittr`](https://github.com/smbache/magrittr) that suit your programming style. To install and load a package like `magrittr`:
While it is unlikely that you will _need_ to install packages to solve the exercism problems, you may want to bring in a general-purpose utility packages like [`tidyverse`](https://github.com/tidyverse/tidyverse) that suit your programming style. To install and load a package like `tidyverse`:

```{R}
install.packages("magrittr")
library(magrittr)
install.packages("tidyverse")
library(tidyverse)
```

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