R and Splus Handouts and Tutorials

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Note that while R and Splus are very similar in many ways, some packages that will be used in this course are only available with R.

Using R on the leland system for Stats315b:

• On starting R and loading libraries in postscript and in pdf
• A general introduction to emacs in postscript

R Resources:

• R Project web pages

SPLUS Handouts:

• Introduction to Splus in postscript and in pdf
• Examples with Boston Housing Data in postscript and in pdf

RPART Tutorials:

• "An introduction to Recursive Partitioning using the RPART routines" (short version)
  • in postscript
  • in pdf
• long version can be found in the class directory /usr/class/stats202/rpart/Manuscript.pdf