Excel is very useful, but there is more suitable software for data analysis and visualization with statistics and machine learning.
That’s R. R provides interfaces to analyze data with mathematics easily.
In this article, I’ll share how to install R on Windows.
Target Environment
- OS
- Windows7 Enterprise Service Pack1
- R
- 3.2.0
Install Flow
It’s easy to install R. Just run installer.- Click here and move to download page
- Click “base”

- Click “Download R 3.2.0 for Windows” and start to download

- Dboule-click downloaded installer
- Just push “Next” button like following










Behavior Check
Let’s check R behavior a little bit.- Double-click shortcut icon (you can choose 32bit or 64bit version)


- Check built-in dataset and visualization
> iris > plot(iris)


How to install library
R has many kind of library about statistics and machine learning.Actually, I download new library and analyze data when I do new analysis.
I’d like to share how to install library in R.
- Click “Package” and “Install Package” in menu

- Choose “Japan(Tokyo)” as mirror site to download library

- Choose library which you want to install (in this time choose “arules” which is association analysis library

- Check loading library
> library(arules) > data(Groceries) > Groceries
