R 4 Quick Syntax Reference: A Pocket Guide to the Language, API's and Library

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M. TollefsonR 4 Quick Syntax Referencehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7924-3_16

16. The base, stats, and graphics Packages

Margot Tollefson¹  

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Vanward Statistics, PO Box 286, 612 Teneyck Avenue, Stratford, IA, 50249-0286, USA

 

In this chapter, we take a quick look at the base, stats, and graphics packages (three of the packages loaded by default in R). The base package contains things such as the trigonometric function and other mathematical functions, many of the as. and is. functions, the arithmetic operators, the flow control statements, some apply functions, and many other basic functions in R.

The stats package contains many basic statistical functions, ...