Departmental Computing Information
R
What is it?
Statistical software package. Official website: R
Where is it?
On all department UNIX systems R is located at /usr/local/bin/R (which is in your path, so you can just type "R" at the prompt.)
Most department Windows machines have R installed. If R is not installed on your machine, you can download R from the Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN) and install it yourself, or ask the computing staff to do it for you.
Mac users are responsible for installing R themselves. You can download R from the Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN).
Known File Formats
Script files can technically have any extension, but ".r" is typical.
Recommended Books
Introductory
(in no particular order)
- The introductory manual that comes with R
- Chris Green's R Primer
- W. N. Venables and B. D. Ripley, Modern Applied Statistics with S, Fourth Edition
- Peter Dalgaard's Introductory Statistics with R book
More advanced and/or more specialized
- Other manuals from the R Project
- Other books in the R Project's bibliography
- Chambers, J. M. and Hastie, T. J. 1992. Statistical Models in S. Chapman & Hall/ CRC.
- Heiberger, R. and Holland B. Statistical Analysis and Data Display: An Intermediate Course with Examples in S-PLUS, R, and SAS. Springer-Verlag, 2004.
- Becker, Chambers, and Wilks. The New S Langauge. Wadsworth & Brooks/Cole, 1988.
- Chambers JM. Programming with Data. Springer-Verlag, 1998.
- Venables WN and Ripley BD. S Programming. Springer-Verlag, 2000.
- Pinheiro, Jose C. and Bates Douglas M. Mixed-Effects Models in S and S-Plus. Springer, 2000. ISBN 0-387-98957-0.
Links
Tutorials:
- Thomas Lumley's R Fundamentals and Programming Techniques slide set
- CSDE training course materials (These are course materials from a 4-hour introductory course in R offered by CSDE once or twice a year.)
- CSSS 508: Introduction to R for Social Scientists (This is a quarter-long introductory course in R.)
Open-source libraries and other R code.
Mailing Lists
- R Project mailing lists. R-Help is probably what you are looking for if you want to ask a "how do I do X" question.
- There is a searchable version of R-Help here.