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Published inMar 2024
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Luca Zavarella
Luca Zavarella
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Luca Zavarella

Luca Zavarella has a rich background as an Azure Data Scientist Associate and Microsoft MVP, with a Computer Engineering degree from the University of L'Aquila. His decade-plus experience spans the Microsoft Data Platform, starting as a T-SQL developer on SQL Server 2000 and 2005, then mastering the full suite of Microsoft Business Intelligence tools (SSIS, SSAS, SSRS), and advancing into data warehousing. Recently, his focus has shifted to advanced analytics, data science, and AI, contributing to the community as a speaker and blogger, especially on Medium. Currently, he leads the Data & AI division at iCubed, and he also holds an honors degree in classical piano from the "Alfredo Casella" Conservatory in L'Aquila.
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Installing an IDE for R development

The need to install a state-of-the-art R IDE for the development of code in Power BI comes from the need to have all the tools necessary to identify any bugs and quickly test the results of code chunks on the fly.

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It is strongly suggested to test your R code in the IDE and verify the results before using it in Power BI.

There are many IDEs for R development on the market. Some examples are R-Brain IDE (RIDE), IntelliJ IDEA, and JupyterLab, but it is estimated that over 90% of R programmers use RStudio as their primary IDE because of the countless features that simplify their daily work. For this reason, we suggest that you also use this IDE to test the code you will encounter in this book.

Installing RStudio

Installing RStudio (at the time of writing the chapter, the version is 2022.07.2+576) on your machine is very simple:

  1. Go to https://posit.co/download/rstudio-desktop/ and click the DOWNLOAD RSTUDIO...
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Luca Zavarella

Luca Zavarella has a rich background as an Azure Data Scientist Associate and Microsoft MVP, with a Computer Engineering degree from the University of L'Aquila. His decade-plus experience spans the Microsoft Data Platform, starting as a T-SQL developer on SQL Server 2000 and 2005, then mastering the full suite of Microsoft Business Intelligence tools (SSIS, SSAS, SSRS), and advancing into data warehousing. Recently, his focus has shifted to advanced analytics, data science, and AI, contributing to the community as a speaker and blogger, especially on Medium. Currently, he leads the Data & AI division at iCubed, and he also holds an honors degree in classical piano from the "Alfredo Casella" Conservatory in L'Aquila.
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