This post describes what I did to make the very first file I read into the R project statistics package readable. If you obtain a file from some database, it is likely it will not be in a form suitable for reading into R and this may help you. Because I never feel [...]
Archive for November 17th, 2007
Nov17
The R manual & What’s in it.
Teaching myself R at home, with no resources other than the web is a bit daunting. But, I’m up for it. My step was to download the manual: An introduction to R
Inside, I find these section titles:
Preface.
Introduction and Preliminaries
Simple Manipulations, numbers, vectors.
Objects, their modes and attributes.
Ordered and unordered factors.
Arrays and Matrices.
Reading Data From Files.
Probability distributions.
Grouping, [...]
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