In the "Before we Start" episode, the materials did a very good job in explaining what is R and RStudio. But I do think the explanation is too technical for social scientists. I persoanlly a political scientist. I was very confused about why I need to install both R and RStudio to make it work. We should emphasize more on the difference between R and RStudio. I think a lot of people in social science have very limited language in coding so just explaining RStudio as an IDE--Integrated Development Environment does not make a lot of sense to me when I started to learn R. People should know R actually is still runninng when they run their codes on RStudio.
In the "Before we Start" episode, the materials did a very good job in explaining what is R and RStudio. But I do think the explanation is too technical for social scientists. I persoanlly a political scientist. I was very confused about why I need to install both R and RStudio to make it work. We should emphasize more on the difference between R and RStudio. I think a lot of people in social science have very limited language in coding so just explaining RStudio as an IDE--Integrated Development Environment does not make a lot of sense to me when I started to learn R. People should know R actually is still runninng when they run their codes on RStudio.