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Bare-bones R: A Brief Introductory Guide Book

Bare-bones R: A Brief Introductory Guide
Bare-bones R: A Brief Introductory Guide, Offering a user friendly introduction to R software
A terrific intro book! I'll recommend it to any class I teach in which I use R. 
—Gary Mc Donald, Oakland University
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  • Bare-bones R: A Brief Introductory Guide
  • Written by author Thomas P. Hogan
  • Published by SAGE Publications, February 2010
  • Offering a user friendly introduction to R software "A terrific intro book! I'll recommend it to any class I teach in which I use R. " —Gary Mc Donald, Oakland University This text provides a practical, hands-on introduction to the elements of R
  • Offering a user friendly introduction to R softwareThis text provides a practical, hands-on introduction to the elements of R and R Commander. Assuming no background in computer programming, author Thomas P. Hogan guides the novice in using thes
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Preface ix

About the Author xiii

Chapter 1 Base R 1

1-1 What Is R? 1

1-2 R's Ups and Downs 1

1-3 Getting Started: Loading R 2

A Little Wrinkle: The "Mirror" Site 5

1-4 Getting Started Really: Using R as a Calculator 6

1-5 Creating a Data Set 8

Saving Stuff 10

1-6 Using R Functions: Simple Stuff 11

Commands for mean, sd, summary 11

Command for correlation (cor) 12

More Functions 12

1-7 Reading in Larger Data Sets 12

The read.table Command 14

The attach Command 15

The data.frame Command 16

1-8 Getting Help 17

1-9 Dealing With Missing Data 18

1-10 Using R Functions: Hypothesis Tests 20

The t test 21

Chi-Square 22

1-11 R Functions for Commonly Used Statistics 23

1-12 Two Commands for Managing Your Files 24

1-13 R Graphics 25

The hist and boxplot Commands 25

The plot Command 27

Getting the Line of Best Fit 27

Controlling Your Graphics: A Brief Look 28

Chapter 2 R Commander 31

2-1 What is R Commander? 31

Loading R Commander (Rcmdr) 31

2-2 R Commander Windows and Menus 33

2-3 The Data Menu 35

New data set 37

Changing "var" Names 38

Load data set; Data in packages 39

Import data 39

Convert Numeric Variables to Factors 40

2-4 The Statistics Menu 42

Active data set 44

Numerical summaries 44

Frequency distributions 46

Count missing observations 46

Table of statistics 47

Correlation matrix 48

Correlation test 49

Shapiro-Wilk test of normality 49

The Means Menu: t test and ANOVA 50

Contingency tables and chi-square 52

2-5 The Graphics Menu 54

Examples of Graphs 54

Changing a Graph's Appearance 57

2-6 The Distributions Menu: Two Quick Examples 58

Chapter 3 SomeOther Stuff 61

3-1 A Few Other Ways to Enter Data 61

From Word 61

From SPSS 62

3-2 Exporting R Results 64

Exporting Statistical Summaries From Base R 64

Exporting Graphs From Base R 66

Exporting Results From R Commander 66

3-3 Bonus: Build Your Own Functions 67

3-4 An Example of an Add-on Package 68

Getting Information About Packages 68

Installing an Add-on Package 69

Using an Add-on Package 70

3-5 Keeping Up-to-Date 72

3-6 Going Further: Selected References 72

Handy List of a Few Crucial Commands in Base R 75

Index 77


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