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.
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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
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Web site for R (CRAN = Comprehensive R Archive Network)
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John Maindonald's web site
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email: john.maindonald AT anu.edu.au