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An Introduction to R

by W.N. Venables, D.M. Smith and the R Development Core Team

Paperback (6"x9"), 156 pages, 7 figures
Retail Price: $19.95 (£12.95 in UK)
ISBN: 0-9541617-4-2

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This tutorial manual provides a comprehensive introduction to GNU R, a free software package for statistical computing and graphics.

This revised and updated manual covers the 1.9.1 release of GNU R, and contains additional new examples, notes and corrections.

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Table of Contents

  1. Preface
  2. Introduction and preliminaries
  3. Simple manipulations numbers and vectors
  4. Objects
  5. Factors
  6. Arrays and matrices
  7. Lists and data frames
  8. Reading data from files
  9. Probability distributions
  10. Loops and conditional execution
  11. Writing your own functions
  12. Statistical models in R
  13. Graphics
  14. A sample session
  15. Invoking R
  16. The command line editor
  17. Function and variable index
  18. Concept index
  19. References

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