Courses in R and in R-Based Statistical Analysis

From time to time I run courses on the use of R, and on R-based statistical analysis.

In Preparation for the Course

The following document suggests preparatory reading and familiarization with the R command line, has details on setup of R under Windows, and lists packages that will be required or may be useful.
Preparation
Pages 1-26 of the course notes.

Click here to get the scripts

Other Introductory Documents (for those who want to look further)

Go to http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/CRAN
and click on Documentation to see some of the possibilities.

Try, perhaps, R for Beginners (Emmanuel Paradis).

Exercises

These exercises are additional to those in the course notes

Click here to get the scripts

Weaving the Exercises (R's Sweave function)

Here is a brief introduction to the combining of LaTeX source and suitably annotated R code in a document that can then be processed through R's Sweave function to give the final document.
R talks to LaTeX

Sweave versions of the exercise scripts

Links

Web site for R (CRAN = Comprehensive R Archive Network)

John Maindonald's web site

email: john.maindonald AT anu.edu.au