(1) Install R for your operating system: Windo ws: http://cran.at.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/ Mac OS X: http://cran.at.r-project.org/bin/macosx/ Linux: http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ (2) Copy & paste the following commands into the R console and execute them with the enter key: source ("http://www.bioconductor.org/biocLite.R") biocLite() biocLite(c("affycoretools", "arrayQualityMetrics", "GOstats", "Ruuid", "graph", "Category", "plier", "ath1121501.db", "ath1121501cdf", "ath1121501probe", "ricecdf", "riceprobe")) (3) Save and extract the following exercise data into an empty directory on your desktop: http://biocluster.ucr.edu/~tgirke/Documents/R_BioCond/Samples/Workshop.zip