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.
