The course tought by professor Holt will feature R specifically. I'll be working in Fedora 23 during this semester and will be using R-Studio as a development environment.
wget https://download1.rstudio.org/rstudio-0.99.491-x86_64.rpm
md5sum rstudio-0.99.491-x86_64.rpm # should match 0c02d3ec5d69e43ea0e32a3d8de443f4
sudo dnf install R R-devel
sudo dnf install rstudio-0.99.491-x86_64.rpm
From here you will be able to use R-studio to install packages from CRAN.
The Libraries used in the course are:
We'll be using R-Markdown to write our reports.