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Thursday, 29 April, 2010 (20100429)
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Here is the
R script
for this session. The final product should look like
this
(rasterized outside of R in GIMP for finer control).
Outline
A brief history of R
Interacting with R—GUI, terminal, and text editor
How to get help and find out more—finding and reading documentation
Functional programming: how does this effect the applied user?
"Everything in R is an object" — John
Chambers
Classes, methods, functions, and objects—do
you know what your data is?
Putting it all together: Graphics in R
An interactive session
Learning Objectives
Using a text editor with R
Basic understanding of objects, functions, classes, and methods and
how they fit into using R
Creating and saving basic plots