What you need for this book

In order to make your learning efficient, you need to have a computer with either Windows, Mac, or Ubuntu.

You need to download and install R to execute the codes mentioned in this book. You can download and install R using the CRAN website available at http://cran.r-project.org/. All the codes are written using RStudio. RStudio is an integrated development environment for R and can be downloaded from http://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/.

The different R packages used in the book are freely available to download and install for all operating systems mentioned above.