R
The R project webpage provides a succinct description of the R language and environment.
At the start, one might want to look at the official R manual An Introduction to R.
A good book to start learning is A Beginner's Guide to R.
Another gentle introduction to R is R for Beginners by Emmanuel Paradis.
Introductory books and papers about R include:
- The New S Language by Richard A. Becker, John M. Chambers, and Allan R. Wilks (Chapman & Hall, 1988), a.k.a. the "Blue Book"; covers S version 2
- Statistical Models in S by John M. Chambers and Trevor J. Hastie (Chapman & Hall, 1992), a.k.a. the "White Book"; covers S version 3
- Programming with Data by John M. Chambers (Springer, 1998), a.k.a. the "Green Book"; covers S version 4
- Software for Data Analysis: Programming with R by John M. Chambers (Springer, 2008)
- Modern Applied Statistics with S, 4th Edition
by William N. Venables and Brian D. Ripley (Springer, 2002)
- S Programming
by William N. Venables and Brian D. Ripley (Springer, 2000)
- Introductory Statistics with R, 2nd Edition
by Peter Dalgaard (Springer, 2008)
- Data Analysis and Graphics Using R, 2nd Edition
by John Maindonald and John Braun (Cambridge, 2003)
- Using R for Introductory Statistics
by John Verzani (Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2005)
- The R Book
by Michael J. Crawley (Wiley, 2007)
- Statistics: An Introduction using R
by Michael J. Crawley (Wiley, 2005)
- Statistical Computing: An Introduction to Data Analysis using S-Plus
by Michael J. Crawley (Wiley, 2002)
- A Handbook of Statistical Analyses Using R
by Brian Everitt and Torsten Hothorn (Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2006)
- Statistical Computing with R
by Maria L. Rizzo (Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2008)
- A First Course in Statistical Programming with R
by W. John Braun and Duncan J. Murdoch (Cambridge, 2007)
- Data Manipulation with R
by Phil Spector (Springer, 2008)
- The Basics of S-PLUS, 4th Edition
by Andreas Krause and Melvin Olson (Springer, 2005)
- Introduction to Probability with R by Kenneth Baclawski (Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2008)
- Probability and Statistics with R by María Dolores Ugarte, Ana F. Militino, and Alan T. Arnholt (Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2008)
- R: A language for data analysis and graphics, by Ross Ihaka and Robert Gentleman, Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 5(3):299-314, 1996
- Lexical scope and statistical computing, by Robert Gentleman and Ross Ihaka, Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 9(3):491-508, 2000
- Data Analysts Captivated by R's Power, by Ashlee Vance, New York Times, January 6, 2009
- R You Ready for R?, by Ashlee Vance, New York Times, January 8, 2009
- R for SAS and SPSS Users, by Robert A. Muenchen (Springer, 2008)
Installation Binaries:
- Linux (choose your version of Linux and follow the directions)
- Mac OS X (begin with the latest version dmg)
- Windows (begin with the base distribution exe)
Reading material:
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