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Introducing R

• Searching for Help with R
  • R Mailing List and Archives
  • Search for help with R
• Online Materials that Introduce R
  • Contributed (user written) Documentation (from CRAN)
    Suggested titles
    • Using R for Data Analysis and Graphics: Introduction Code and Commentary  by J H Maindonald, Centre for Bioinformatics Science, Australian National University
    • Practical Regression and ANOVA in R
    • Kickstarting R (version 1.6)compiled by Jim Lemon, a short introduction
    • Notes on the use of R for psychology experiments and questionnaires by Baron, J., and Li, Y. (2000).
  • An Introduction to R by W.N. Venables (pdf) as well as other printable manuals from the CRAN site.
  • R Graphics by Paul Murrell
  • R and Bioconductor Manual by Thomas Girke of UC Riverside
  • R Tutorial
• Quick References
  • Paul Johnson's R-Tips page
  • Jonathan Baron's R reference card
  • Tom Short's R reference card

More on R

• Materials from John Fox
  • Learning R
    • An Introduction to Statistical Computing in R (February 2005, California Center for Population Research, UCLA)
    • An R and S-PLUS Companion to Applied Regression John Fox (especially see Scripts for examples by chapter and appendix ,  Web appendix to the text )
  • Software Add Ons
    • Rcmdr package for R (a basic-statistics graphical-user-interface for R).
    • car (Companion to Applied Regression) package for R and library for S-PLUS. Software associated with An R and S-PLUS Companion to Applied Regression..
    • effects (R package for effect displays).
• Official R Materials from the The R Project for Statistical Computing
  • The R Manuals
  • The R FAQ
  • Contributed (user written) Documentation
  • Search for help with R
  • Downloading R
  • Addtional Packages
• Other Materials
  • Zelig by Gary King
  • Using R for Estimating Longitudinal Student Achievement Models by by J.R. Lockwood, Harold Doran and Daniel F. McCaffrey (see page 17).

  • An Introduction to Spatial Regression Analysis in R by Luc Anselin of University of Illinois, May 23, 2003

• The R Mailing list and Archives
• base functions , All other packages from The University of Pennsylvania's website on R

Related Links on S/Splus

• S Poetry by Patrick J. Burns (1998); a free 439 page book on more advanced S-Plus programming in PDF format.

• An Introduction to Splus from Phil Spector

• Writing Functions in Splus from Phil Spector
• Statistical Models and Graphics in Splus from Phil Spector
• S-Plus Web Site , including S-Plus Documentation, Support
• S-News Mailing List and Archive

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