An Introduction to R - Second Edition

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

Paperback (6"x9"), 144 pages, 7 figures
Retail Price: $19.95 (£12.95 in UK)
ISBN: 0-9546120-8-6 (ISBN-13: 978-0-9546120-8-5)

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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 second edition covers the 2.9.0 release of R (April 2009), and contains additional examples, notes and corrections.

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