R User Documentation

• Home for the R Project
• CRAN, (Comprehensive R Archive Network)
• General Documents for Newbies:
• Notes on S-Plus, 96 pages of really easy reading, containing the very core concepts and lots of examples. Applies to R also.
• Creating Charts and Graphs with GNU R.
• S-Plus Graphics, from an old brown bag seminar.
• R for Beginners
• Notes on S-Plus, another well written introduction. Applies to R also.
• Graphics with R (slides on the basics of graphics with and without the lattice package, from the R Core development team)
• Graphics (base graphics and/or grid/lattice/trellis graphics)

  Note: The grid package provides fairly low level tools that offer great flexibility in designing graphical output. The lattice package is an implementation of trellis graphics (available in Splus) using grid graphics and provides higher level graphs for many common situations. Neither of these mixes very well the "base graphics" of R.

  • Grid Graphics Home Page maintained by Paul Murrell, author of the grid package.
  • Supporting material for Paul Murrell's book R Graphics
    • This book is scheduled to be published by Chapman & Hall/CRC in August 2005 and includes information on base graphics as well as grid and lattice graphics.
    • An Introduction to R Graphics (draft of chapter 1) is available as a pdf.
    • R code for all the examples in the book are also available.
• How-tos (contributed examples):
  • The fusion package (version 0.1-3) is available for use.
    • To install:

      install.packages("fusion",
      	lib="~/R/library",
      	contriburl="http://www.calvin.edu/~rpruim/R")
      

      Omit the lib= part to use the default location (which you can't do on compute12 or snowwhite unless you are Terry, but may be able to do on a local machine where you have more permissions).
    • Try the following:

      library(fusion)
      help(package="fusion")
      ?col.brewer
      args(col.brewer)
      example(col.brewer)
      example(radplot)
      

  • Local Installation and Use of R Packages
  • Using MySQL within R
  • Make an LD plot using levelplot() -- see the fusion package