How to check whether a representation $G\to\mathrm{GL}(n,\Bbb R)$ is irreducible?

Question

I know there is a very beautiful theory for representations over $\Bbb C$, especially the character theory makes it almost trivial to check whether a given representation $G\to\mathrm{GL}(n,\Bbb C)$ is irreducible.

But how can I check this in a similarly algorithmic fashion for representations over $\Bbb R$? I am specifically interested in the case of finite groups.

Question: Given a finite group $G$ and a representation $\rho:G\to\mathrm{GL}(n,\Bbb R)$. How to determine (algorithmically) whether $\rho$ is irreducible?

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Note I

I am aware of Frobenius-Schur indicator but I cannot understand whether and how it helps me for my question. At first, I do not have a representation over $\Bbb C$ to start with. And I am not really interested in transforming my irreducible representation over $\Bbb R$ into one or more irreducible representation over $\Bbb C$.

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Note II

I avoid using the term "real representation" as it seems to have the meaning of a representation over $\Bbb C$ with a real valued character. I am not very familiar with the connection of this term and "representations over $\Bbb R$" that I use. But please enlighten me.

Answer 1

One of the links in the comments below the question brought me to the following website, which contains a nice characterization of irreducible representations over $\Bbb R$:

A representation $\rho:G\to\mathrm{GL}(n,\Bbb R)$ with character $\chi=\mathrm{tr}(\rho)$ is irreducible, if and only if $$\|\chi\|^2+\nu(\chi)=2.$$

Here $\|\chi\|^2$ is the squared norm of the character, and $\nu$ is the Frobenius-Schur indicator defined by

$$\|\chi\|^2=\frac1{|G|}\sum_{g\in G}\chi^2(g),\qquad \nu(\chi):=\frac1{|G|}\sum_{g\in G}\chi(g^2).$$