Part 1: R Basics
1. Downloading R and Setting Up a File System
2. The R Prompt
3. Assignments and Operators
Part 2: Kinds of Objects
4. Modes of Objects
5. Classes of Objects
Part 3: Functions
6. Packaged Functions
7. User Created Functions
8. How to Use a Function
Part 4: I/O and Manipulating Objects
9. Importing/Creating Data
10. Exporting from R
11. Descriptive Functions and Manipulating Objects
Part 5: Flow control
12. Flow Control
13. Examples of Flow Control
14. The Functions ifelse() and switch()
Part 6: Some Common Functions, Packages and Techniques
15. Some Common Functions
16. The Packages base, stats and graphics
17. The Tricks of the Trade
Margot Tollefson is a self-employed consulting statistician residing in the tiny town of Stratford in the corn and soybean fields of north-central Iowa. She started using the S-Plus language in the early 1990s and was happy to switch to R about ten years ago. Margot enjoys writing her own functions in R - to do plots and simulations, as well as to implement custom modeling and use published statistical methods. She earned her graduate degrees in statistics from Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa.