R User Documentation

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