Month: March 2015

(R is not like other statistical software. But that’s a good thing.)

• Prologue
• Getting a feel for R
  • The console
  • Function calls and arguments
    • HINT: Getting help
  • Some graphics
    • HINT: Command history and workspace
• Getting data into R
  • Data frames
  • Creating data frames
    • HINT: Data management in R and RStudio.
• Exploratory data analysis
  • Scatterplot matrix
    • HINT: R packages
  • Summary statistics and data screening
  • Box plots
  • Stem-and-leaf display
  • Categorical variables: factors
  • Some confirmatory analysis
• More graphics
• R scripts (command files)
• An R menu system: R-commander
• Epilogue