An Introduction to R: A Programming Environment for Data Analysis and Graphics

This tutorial manual provides a comprehensive introduction to R, a software package for statistical computing and graphics.

R supports a wide range of statistical techniques and is easily extensible via user-defined functions. One of R's strengths is the ease with which publication-quality plots can be produced in a wide variety of formats.

This is a printed edition of the tutorial documentation from the R distribution, with additional examples, notes and corrections. It is based on R version 2.9.0, released April 2009. R is free software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). It can be used with GNU/Linux, Unix and Microsoft Windows. All the money raised from the sale of this book supports the development of free software and documentation.

Title An Introduction to R: A Programming Environment for Data Analysis and Graphics
Author(s) William N Venables, David M Smith
Publisher: Network Theory Ltd.; 2nd edition (May 1, 2009); eBook (Version 2.15.1, June 22, 2012)
Paperback 144 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0954612086
ISBN-13: 978-0954612085
eBook: http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-intro.pdf