All About R

R is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. R provides a wide variety of statistical (linear and nonlinear modeling, classical statistical tests, time-series analysis, classification, clustering, ...) and graphical techniques, and is highly extensible. R is available as Free Software under the terms of the Free Software Foundation's GNU General Public License in source code form. It compiles and runs on a wide variety of UNIX platforms and similar systems (including FreeBSD and Linux), Windows and MacOS.

Citation for R

R Development Core Team (2006).  R: A Language and Environment for Statistical Computing.  R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria.  http://www.R-project.org

Citation for Bioconductor

Gentleman RC, Carey VJ, Bates DM, Bolstad B, Dettling M, Dudoit S, Ellis B, Gautier L, Ge Y, Gentry J, Hornik K, Hothorn T, Huber W, Iacus S, Irizarry R, Leisch F, Li C, Maechler M, Rossini AJ, Sawitzki G, Smith C, Smyth G, Tierney L, Yang JYH, Zhang J (2004).  Bioconductor: Open software development for computational biology and bioinformatics. Genome Biology 5:R80.

For more details about R, see the topics Viewing the R Project Homepage and Viewing R Manuals.

Viewing the R Project Homepage

  1. Open a new browser window.
  2. Enter the URL http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN/
  3. Click R Homepage in the vertical menu on the left. The R Homepage displays.

Viewing R Manuals

  1. Open a new browser window.
  2. Enter the URL http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN/
  3. Click Manuals in the vertical menu on the left. The R Manuals page displays.
  4. Select and click the manual you want to view.