R is a free open-source
programming language that can be used for statistical analysis,
data-simulation, graphing, and lots of other stuff. Another free program
is R-studio, that provides a nice
graphic interface for R. Download R first, then download R-studio. Both
can run on PCs, Macs or Linux. Students will be learning R in the stats
labs using the lab manual .
Additional R resources
Google is great, Google your problem
Stackoverflow is great,
google will often take you there because someone has already asked your
question, and someone else has answered, usually many people have
answered your question many ways.
Daniell Navarro recently made this website for introducing R, it’s
great, check it out (also made using this R markdown process): http://compcogscisydney.org/psyr/
This is the definitive guide for all things R Markdown (you will
find this very useful as you get better at this skill): https://bookdown.org/yihui/rmarkdown/