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LEARN R BY JUST WATCHING

For this week, Decision Science News has created a video tutorial on how to get started using the R Language for Statistical Computing. (The tutorial is best viewed in your browser’s full-screen mode, try pressing F11 in Windows). R is free and open source, and constantly being improved upon by countless contributors worldwide. DSN highly recommends using R.

Hi Res Version at: http://www.dangoldstein.com/flash/Rtutorial1/Rtutorial1.html

Topics covered include:

Downloading and installing R in Windows

The R graphical user interface

Viewing the graphics demo

Vectors and basic stats

Simple plotting

The commands in the tutorial are:

demo(graphics)

x=c(1,2,3,4,5,6,7)

y=c(10,14,20,18,16,15,10)

x+y

z=c(x,y)

sum(y)

mean(y)

sd(y)

plot(x,y)

barplot(y,col=”lightgreen”)

Got that? Now try R video tutorial 2

See also The R Graph Gallery

Can’t view flash? Download movie. If you see no image under Windows, download the TSSC Codec.