Introductory Statistics With R

Summary of Chapter 2 - The R Environment

Lan Phan

2.1 Session management

2.1.1 The workspace

2.1.2 Textual output

2.1.3 Scripting

2.1.4 Getting help

2.1.5 Packages

2.1.6 Built-in data

2.1.7 attach and detach

2.1.8 subset, transform and within

2.2 The graphics subsystem

2.2.1 Plot layout

2.2.2 Building a plot from pieces

2.2.3 Using par

2.2.4 Combining plots

2.3 R programming

2.3.1 Flow control

2.3.2 Classes and generic functions

2.4 Data entry

2.4.1 Reading from a text file

2.4.2 Further details on read.table

2.4.3 The data editor

2.4.4 Interfacing to other programs