R tutorial

R tutorial

This page is a placeholder, or under current development; it is here principally to establish the logical framework of the site. The material on this page is correct, but incomplete.

This is a tutorial introduction to R for users with no previous background in the platform or the language.

 

The environment

wd, help, menu items, workspace, loading and running scripts

Standard packages included, data available

 

Simple commands

Including functions

 

Scalar datatypes

Definition, change, operations with, functions to work on...

 

Vectors

 

Matrices, tables, frames

Subsetting,mselecting and filtering

 

Data manipulations

Transformation Search

 

Writing functions

 

Installing new functions

 

Numeric output

 

Graphic output

 

Notes

 

Further reading and resources