An Introduction to Rby W.N. Venables, D.M. Smith and the R Development Core Team Paperback (6"x9"), 156 pages, 7 figures |
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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
- Preface
- Introduction and preliminaries
- Simple manipulations numbers and vectors
- Objects
- Factors
- Arrays and matrices
- Lists and data frames
- Reading data from files
- Probability distributions
- Loops and conditional execution
- Writing your own functions
- Statistical models in R
- Graphics
- A sample session
- Invoking R
- The command line editor
- Function and variable index
- Concept index
- References