A Beginner's Guide to R

• Main Authors: Zuur, Alain F. (Author), Ieno, Elena N. (Author), Meesters, Erik (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2009.
• Series: Use R
• Subjects: Statistics.; Ecology.; Statistics and Computing/Statistics Programs.; Theoretical Ecology/Statistics.; Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences.

Based on their extensive experience with teaching R and statistics to applied scientists, the authors provide a beginner's guide to R. To avoid the difficulty of teaching R and statistics at the same time, statistical methods are kept to a minimum. The text covers how to download and install R,...

Table of Contents:

• Getting Data into R
• Accessing Variables and Managing Subsets of Data
• Simple Functions
• An Introduction to Basic Plotting Tools
• Loops and Functions
• Graphing Tools
• An Introduction to the Lattice Package
• Common R Mistakes.