Summary: INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICAL
MODELLING IN R
P.M.E.Altham, Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge.
March 2, 2011
p.m.e.altham@statslab.cam.ac.uk
R is available as Free Software under the terms of the Free Software Foundation's
GNU General Public License in source code form.
R is powerful and highly developed (and very similar in syntax to S­Plus).
The originators of R are R.Gentleman and R.Ihaca from New Zealand, and the R
home page is at
http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/rproj.html
R runs on PC and UNIX systems and can be retrieved via anonymous ftp. If you
want to get hold of R for yourself, go to
http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R
or use the link on my homepage.
Acknowledgements
Special thanks must go to Professor Jim Lindsey for launching me into R, to
Dr R.J.Gibbens for his help in introducing me to S­plus, and also to Professor
B.D.Ripley for access to his S­plus lecture notes. Several generations of keen and
critical students for the Cambridge University Diploma in Mathematical Statistics

Source: Altham, Pat - Statistical Laboratory, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge

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