Colorado School of Mines

Introduction to Mathematical Statistics
MACS 435A     Spring 2007

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R and related things

On this page you will find information concerning the open-source statistical software R, source code, as well as datasets used in class.

Download, installation, help,...

  • R is installed in the Ryan Sayers/alamode lab (CH120). Login on one of the machines and type `R' in a terminal. You are all set. Start R
  • To install on your personal computer, follow the instructions on http://cran.us.r-project.org/.
  • Short ref-cards are 4 pages and 1 page
  • `StatsRus', a page full of R-tips
  • Links to Manuals can be found on the main R webpage. You might consider this html or pdf version.
    You are NOT encouraged to read the manuals. The help in R and the comments in the scripts are sufficient.

Additional Datasets:

  • students.dat: gender, weight, height, lucky number and random number of 41 students.
    Contains 'NA's, space delimited.

Illustrative Sessions:

Introduction A few commands to give you the feeling of what R is.

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