Table of Contents

 

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