

I'm going to customize the start-up just so you can see what the options are here. And you can choose to take all the defaults or you can try to customize your start-up. By default it will install both versions, so you don't have to really worry about that. If you know you have a 32-bit machine, it may be an older macihne, you could click on that. There are other kind of installation setups that you can choose from. Then usually the default installation directory is fine, so I'm going to go through this. So feel free to read it and then click on Next. If you click on Next, you have to agree to the license, which is the GNU General Public License. It'll kind of walk you through the various steps, and so we'll do that right now just to see what the options are. And then you can just click through the installer.

So I'm going to choose English because that's my language. There are a number of choices in terms of the translations that you can choose from. And so, you can choose your language here. And so depending on how fast your Internet connection is, this might take a few minutes. So you can just click on this link and the download will start. And you want to click on the base link here. So you can go to the Windows version here. And you'll see that at the top there's three options. And you need to go to the Comprehensive R Archive Network, or CRAN, so let's type that in here. I'm using Chrome but it really doesn't matter. So the first thing you need to do is launch your web browser. I just want to briefly describe how to install R for a Windows machine.
