Workshop on the R System - Brisbane, November 26-27 2007

Information that is additional to the brochure will be placed here. It may be supplemented from time to time.

Preparation for the Course

Copy down the R binary, install it on your machine, start up R, and start typing!
Click here to obtain R

Windows users: Click on R binaries | windows | base and follow instructions.

Other systems: Click on whatever is appropriate in place of windows

See also the document Installation of R, of R packages, and editor environments

What should I type?

> 1+1
This may suggest some other possibilities!
> demo() Gives a list of demos that can be tried
> demo(graphics) Show off the graphics. Press the ENTER key to display the first graph,
and to display each successive graph.
> example(plot) As before, press the ENTER key to display each new graph.

What next?

Work throuch chapter 1 (optional) and chapters 2 - 3 of the document
http://www.maths.anu.edu.au/~johnm/courses/r/notes/rnotes1-30.pdf

Click here to get the scripts

After that?

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

Web site for R (CRAN = Comprehensive R Archive Network)

John Maindonald's web site

email: john.maindonald AT anu.edu.au