Welcome. R Programming. Welcome to the R programming Wikibook This book is designed to be a practical guide to the R programming language[1]. R is free software designed for statistical computing. There is already great documentation for the standard R packages on the Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN)[2] and many resources in specialized books, forums such as Stackoverflow[3] and personal blogs[4], but all of these resources are scattered and therefore difficult to find and to compare. The aim of this Wikibook is to be the place where anyone can share his or her knowledge and tricks on R.
It is supposed to be organized by task but not by discipline[5]. We try to make a cross-disciplinary book, i.e. a book that can be used by all people applying statistics to some specific fields. How can you share your R experience ? Some rules : Prerequisites[edit] We assume that readers have a background in statistics. See also[edit] References[edit] CRAN: Contributed Documentation. Welcome to a Little Book of R for Time Series! — Time Series 0.2 documentation. Welcome to a Little Book of R for Multivariate Analysis! — Multivariate Analysis 0.1 documentation.