R shorts: R in Google – The wayward teachR

If you don’t fancy installing R on your computer — for whatever reason — but still want to code in R, there is another way: you can use Google’s Colab instead. Simply click on the following link to get going:

https://colab.research.google.com/notebook#create=true&language=r

You will, of course, need a Google account.

There are many benefits to using Google Colab; mainly

that you can share your code with others as you would a Google Document or Google Sheet;
that you get a glimpse of Google’s computing power;
that it’s free.

This is a great way to get students to code and share their code with you.

Happy R-ing.

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Citation

BibTeX citation:

@online{teachr2022,
  author = {teachR, wayward},
  title = {R Shorts: {R} in {Google}},
  date = {2022-08-24},
  url = {https://thewaywardteachr.netlify.app/posts/2022-08-24-r-shorts-r-in-google/r-shorts-r-in-google.html},
  langid = {en}
}

For attribution, please cite this work as:

teachR, wayward. 2022. “R Shorts: R in Google.” August 24, 2022. https://thewaywardteachr.netlify.app/posts/2022-08-24-r-shorts-r-in-google/r-shorts-r-in-google.html.