The R Software: Fundamentals of Programming and Statistical Analysis

by Pierre Lafaye de Micheaux , Rémy Drouilhet , Benoît Liquet

Pierre Lafaye de Micheaux, Rémy Drouilhet and Benoît Liquet, The R Software: Fundamentals of Programming and Statistical Analysis, Springer Statistics and Computing 40, 2013 (translated from the French Le logiciel R). Part I introduces R and the book’s data sets; Part II covers the language (data structures, import/export, manipulation and functions, documentation, plots, programming, sessions); Part III applies it to matrices and optimisation, descriptive statistics, random variables and simulation, confidence intervals and tests, linear regression and ANOVA. Chapters 3 to 15 each end with exercises and a practical worksheet.

Solutions to every exercise and worksheet live at Solutions to Lafaye de Micheaux, Drouilhet & Liquet’s The R Software.