In this chapter, we started on our journey of conducting Tableau analytics with the industry-standard, statistical prowess of R. In this chapter, we covered the installation of R, including a key point about ensuring the right bitness before we start. We also installed RStudio and ran a script, as a way of engaging with R. Finally, we installed and configured Rserve for Tableau.

In our next chapter, we will learn more about the underlying data structures of R so that we can make use of the analytic power of Tableau and R more effectively.