Softwares Installation and Other Configuration

Before starting any simulations or programming, you need to install some software:

• Vim: Vi IMproved is a clone of vi editor for Unix.
• R: An open source, multi-platfrom language and environment for statistical computing and graphics.
• openssh: Premier connectivity tool for remote login with the SSH protocol.
• Rstudio Server: Productive user interface for R. Also free, open-source, and cross-paltform.
• MariaDB: A popular database servers. Made by the original developers of MySQL.

While any package would have been tested thoroughly before included in a Debian stable release, the latest version of R and other packages won't be included in the repository. Hence, you need to add some additional repositories manually.

Now, we need an useful text editor. Let's download the poweful Vim.

Vim

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install vim