2 Installing R and EdSurvey and Loading the Package

Last edited: February 2022

Suggested Citation
Lee, M. Installing R and EdSurvey and Loading the Package. In Bailey, P. and Zhang, T. (eds.), Analyzing NCES Data Using EdSurvey: A User’s Guide.

2.1 Software Requirements

Unless you already have R version 3.5 or later, install the latest R version—which is available online at https://cran.r-project.org/. Users also may want to install RStudio desktop, which has an interface that many find easier to follow. RStudio is available online at https://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/.

2.2 Installing and Loading EdSurvey

Inside R, run the following command to install EdSurvey as well as its package dependencies:

install.packages("EdSurvey")

Once the package is successfully installed, load EdSurvey can be loaded with the following command:

library(EdSurvey)