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Home Online Help Statistical Packages S-Plus/R

R

S-Plus is an advanced and powerful programming language for data management, analysis and graphics. R is based on Splus, most commands for Splus work as well for R. At Princeton S-Plus for Unix is available on the Arizona Unix server, as well as some other departmental Unix servers. S-Plus for Windows is also installed on the computers in the DSS lab. It is not easy to learn and would generally not be a first choice for students wishing to conduct an analysis. DSS support for R is at the basic level.

Resources to learn R

Data analysis examples
Unit roots and cointegration
Descriptive statistics
Subsetting data
And more...

The following notes reffer to S-Plus and, in most cases, apply to R as well. These are based on a document by Hugh Louch,
Data and Statistical Services

Introduction to S-Plus

Overview
S-Plus and Objects
Using S-Plus
Getting Help

Using S-Plus on Unix

Unix Intro
Invoking Splus
Storing S-Plus Objects

S-Plus Syntax

Basics
Assignment
Types of Objects

Reading in Data

SAS Data
read.table()
- Free Format Data
- Fixed Format Data
- Delimited Data
Inputting Your Own Data

Analysis

Referring to Variables
Summary Statistics
Regression
Reading Output

Graphics

Output Devices
Graphing Commands

Resources at Other Sites

This page was last updated on Jan 20, 2010