Using R for Numerical Analysis in Science and Engineering

Contents

List of Figures

Preface

1 Introduction

1.1 Obtaining and installing R

1.2 Learning R

1.3 Learning numerical methods

1.4 Finding help

1.5 Augmenting R with packages

1.6 Learning more about R

1.6.1 Books

1.6.2 Online resources

2 Calculating

2.1 Basic operators and functions

2.2 Complex numbers

2.3 Numerical display, round-off error, and rounding

2.4 Assigning variables

2.4.1 Listing and removing variables

2.5 Relational operators

2.6 Vectors

2.6.1 Vector elements and indexes

2.6.2 Operations with vectors

2.6.3 Generating sequences

2.6.3.1 Regular sequences

2.6.3.2 Repeating values

2.6.3.3 Sequences of random numbers

2.6.4 Logical vectors

2.6.5 Speed of forming large vectors

2.6.6 Vector dot product and crossproduct

2.7 Matrices

2.7.1 ...