25 Recipes for Getting Started with R

Table of contents

1. Preface
   1. Other Resources
   2. Downloading Additional Packages
   3. Software and Platform Notes
   4. Conventions Used in This Book
   5. Using Code Examples
   6. Safari® Books Online
   7. How to Contact Us
2. 1. The Recipes
   1. 1.1. Downloading and Installing R
      1. Problem
      2. Solution
      3. Discussion
      4. See Also
   2. 1.2. Getting Help on a Function
      1. Problem
      2. Solution
      3. Discussion
   3. 1.3. Viewing the Supplied Documentation
      1. Problem
      2. Solution
      3. Discussion
      4. See Also
   4. 1.4. Searching the Web for Help
      1. Problem
      2. Solution
      3. Discussion
      4. See Also
   5. 1.5. Reading Tabular Datafiles
      1. Problem
      2. Solution
      3. Discussion
      4. See Also
   6. 1.6. Reading from CSV Files
      1. Problem
      2. Solution
      3. Discussion
      4. See Also
   7. 1.7. Creating a Vector
      1. Problem
      2. Solution
      3. Discussion
   8. 1.8. Computing Basic Statistics
      1. Problem
      2. Solution
      3. Discussion
      4. See Also
   9. 1.9. Initializing a Data Frame from Column Data
      1. Problem
      2. Solution
      3. Discussion
   10. 1.10. Selecting Data Frame Columns by Position
       1. Problem
       2. Solution
       3. Discussion
   11. 1.11. Selecting Data Frame Columns by Name
       1. Problem
       2. Solution
       3. Discussion
       4. See Also
   12. 1.12. Forming a Confidence Interval for a Mean
       1. Problem
       2. Solution
       3. Discussion
   13. 1.13. Forming a Confidence Interval for a Proportion
       1. Problem
       2. Solution
       3. Discussion
   14. 1.14. Comparing the Means of Two Samples
       1. Problem
       2. Solution
       3. Discussion
       4. See Also
   15. 1.15. Testing a Correlation for Significance
       1. Problem
       2. Solution
       3. Discussion
       4. See Also
   16. 1.16. Creating a Scatter Plot
       1. Problem
       2. Solution
       3. Discussion
       4. See Also
   17. 1.17. Creating a Bar Chart
       1. Problem
       2. Solution
       3. Discussion
       4. See Also
   18. 1.18. Creating a Box Plot
       1. Problem
       2. Solution
       3. Discussion
   19. 1.19. Creating a Histogram
       1. Problem
       2. Solution
       3. Discussion
       4. See Also
   20. 1.20. Performing Simple Linear Regression
       1. Problem
       2. Solution
       3. Discussion
   21. 1.21. Performing Multiple Linear Regression
       1. Problem
       2. Solution
       3. Discussion
       4. See Also
   22. 1.22. Getting Regression Statistics
       1. Problem
       2. Solution
       3. Discussion
   23. 1.23. Diagnosing a Linear Regression
       1. Problem
       2. Solution
       3. Discussion
       4. See Also
   24. 1.24. Predicting New Values
       1. Problem
       2. Solution
       3. Discussion
       4. See Also
   25. 1.25. Accessing the Functions in a Package
       1. Problem
       2. Solution
       3. Discussion
       4. See Also
3. About the Author
4. Copyright