The Book of R

CONTENTS IN DETAIL

PREFACE

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION

A Brief History of R

About This Book

Part I: The Language

Part II: Programming

Part III: Statistics and Probability

Part IV: Statistical Testing and Modeling

Part V: Advanced Graphics

For Students

For Instructors

PART ITHE LANGUAGE

1GETTING STARTED

1.1     Obtaining and Installing R from CRAN

1.2     Opening R for the First Time

1.2.1     Console and Editor Panes

1.2.2     Comments

1.2.3     Working Directory

1.2.4     Installing and Loading R Packages

1.2.5     Help Files and Function Documentation

1.2.6     Third-Party Editors

1.3     Saving Work and Exiting R

1.3.1     Workspaces

1.3.2     Scripts

1.4     Conventions

1.4.1     Coding

1.4.2     Math and Equation References

1.4.3     Exercises ...