Workshop on the R System -- Melbourne -- May 16-17 2006
Information that is additional to the brochure will be placed here.
It will be supplemented from time to time.
Unsure whether the course is for you?
Then copy down the R binary, install it on your machine, fire up R,
and start typing!
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Click here to obtain R
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Windows users: Click on R binaries | windows | base and follow
instructions.
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Other systems: Click on whatever is appropriate in place of windows
What should I type?
> 1+1
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This may suggest some other possibilities!
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> demo()
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Gives a list of demos that can be tried
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> demo(graphics)
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Will show off the graphics. Press the RETURN key to see the first graph,
and to show
each successive graph.
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> example(plot)
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The result is a bit like a movie. Type par(ask = TRUE) to get
the same behaviour as
with demo(graphics)
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What next?
Experiment. Try calculations that may occur to you.
Copy down an introductory document, and start working through it.
Go to
http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/CRAN
and click on Documentation to see some of the possibilities.
Try, perhaps, R for Beginners (Emmanuel Paradis), and see how you go!
Do you have data that you are happy to expose to wider view?
Contact the presenter with the details. Data that have been used for
a published paper may be especially suitable.
Links
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Web site for R (CRAN = Comprehensive R Archive Network)
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DAAG package (also available from CRAN)
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John Maindonald's web site
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email: john.maindonald AT anu.edu.au