Installation of R is fairly straight forward, although it differs slightly between platforms. All platforms have binaries (executable installers) available, and these are recommended for most users. If you want to build R from source you’ll need the suitable compilers depending on your platform.fn4
fn4. If you are using Linux you’ll be good to go, for Windows you’ll need to obtain a program to compile source code, MinGW and Cygwin are both good for this. ↩