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Update your R

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- [Instructor] The R Foundation upgrades R on a regular basis, sometimes more frequently than a couple times a year, so it's important to make sure that the version of R that you're using on your computer is the latest version available. There are a couple of ways to do this. One of them is just to simply go up to the R Foundation web page, select R Binaries, and then download the version that you need. You can run that installer then, and it should upgrade your machine to the current version. There is another way to do that, which is from an R version running on your system already. It's best not to do this from R Studio. So instead, what I've done is open up the R GUI, and I'm using a Macintosh. If I was using Windows, the commands would look like this. I was, first of all, install a package called install.packages, and the package that I would install is installr. Now again, this is how you would do it on Windows, not a Macintosh, so I can't run this. After I had run the…

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