For this workshop we will be using rVDI virtual desktop machines, which run on the HPC.
This is to save setup time, because installing R and all the required analysis packages would take over an hour. The rVDI virtual machines already have all of this installed.
If you want to run the analysis at home, without using rVDI, you can install R and RStudio on your PC.
Installing R: https://cran.r-project.org/
Installing RStudio: RStudio Desktop