Copyright
Brief Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Praise for the First Edition
Preface
Acknowledgments
About this Book
About the Cover Illustration
1. Getting started
Chapter 1. Introduction to R
1.1. Why use R?
1.2. Obtaining and installing R
1.3. Working with R
1.3.1. Getting started
1.3.2. Getting help
1.3.3. The workspace
1.3.4. Input and output
1.4. Packages
1.4.1. What are packages?
1.4.2. Installing a package
1.4.3. Loading a package
1.4.4. Learning about a package
1.5. Batch processing
1.6. Using output as input: reusing results
1.7. Working with large datasets
1.8. Working through an example
1.9. Summary
Chapter 2. Creating a dataset
2.1. Understanding datasets
2.2. Data structures
2.2.1. Vectors
2.2.2. Matrices
2.2.3. Arrays
2.2.4. Data frames
2.2.5. Factors