R

Install R (https://www.r-project.org/)

Top-left, click “CRAN” under Download”, select a local mirror

Click “Download R for Windows”, choose “base”

Click the download and run the installer

Note: if you want to view “Installation and other instructions”, open in Notepad.

May as well exclude the 32-bit files

Finish installation, selecting Add Desktop shortcuts.

You will occasionally need to open R to add packages.

Install ez package (change permissions on Program Files folder)

Download and install Rstudio

Gogole R style guide

Install java 64-bit from here; https://www.java.com/en/download/manual.jsp

Deducer is GUI: 

install.packages(c("JGR","Deducer","DeducerExtras"))

xlsx, GGally (scatter plots), vcd (categorical data), reshape2,dplyr

Updating R

Easiest is to use the "installr" package, as explained here.