A Brief Course in R
Bernhard Pfaff · 2012
R is mainly a programming environment for conducting statistical computations and producing high-level graphics. This chapter begins with a briefing on the origin and development of R language. It provides the reader with some pointers on obtaining help and retrieving the relevant information for solving a problem at hand. R manuals cover different aspects of R and provide a useful introduction to R. The chapter provides an overview of R conferences that have taken place in the past and will most likely come around again in the future. It also presents some of the platform-independent graphical user interfaces (GUIs) and integrated development environments (IDEs). The chapter provides a concise introduction to the two flavours of class and method definitions in R. The first class and method mechanism is referred to as S3 and the second as S4. Finally, the chapter provides the listing of package FRAPO. Controlled Vocabulary Terms statistical methods