Kickstarting R

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Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Customizing the R startup
  • Starting up
  • Customizing
• Managing data
  • Getting data in and out of R
  • Massaging data in R
  • Data objects
• Editing - beyond the command line
  • Selecting editors
  • Writing R functions
  • Writing R scripts
  • Formulae
• Finding the function you want
• Descriptive stats
  • The dstat object
  • Frequencies
  • Contingency tables
  • Breakdown
• Hypothesis testing
  • Tests of proportions
  • T tests
  • ANOVA
  • Repeated measures
  • Multiple comparisons
• Plotting functions
  • Point/line plots
  • Error bars
  • Adding text to a plot
  • Plotting more than one data series
  • Adding lines to a plot
  • Text in the margins
  • Axis breaks
• Packages - making your work portable

Keyword Index

• $R_HOME
• ANOVA
• assignment
• breakdown
• class
• command history
• crosstabulation
• data types
• error bars
• extraction
• formulae
• function
• group means
• index
• mean
• median
• MINITAB data
• mode
• NA
• packages
• path
• proportions
• recursion
• regression - using lm()
• repeated measures
• saving commands and data
• scripts
• selecting subsets of data
• SPSS data
• STATA data
• t-test
• underscore '_'
• variance