S-PLUS & R Class Links

Instructor: Richard Herrington

Why Do We Care To Use the "S" Language?  Does anyone care besides us? The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) cares

S-Plus

• Introduction to S language (S-Plus, R)
• S-Plus Windows Notes (MASS - Brian Ripley)
• S-Plus 6 Users Guide
• S-Plus 6 Users Guide to "Introduction to the Practice of Statistics"
• Datasets for "Introduction to the Practice of Statistics"
• S-Plus Tutorial
• S-Plus Website
• S-Plus Official Documentation

S-PLUS Student Edition Download (Free)

• Student Edition 6.2 - This version of S-Plus has a 20,000 cell or 1,000 row limitation; is only for educational use; is good for only one year; and is a rather large download (100+ meg).

S-PLUS Free Experimental Libraries and User Contributed Libraries

• Research Libraries - Includes: S+CorrelatedData (mixed effects generalized linear models), S+Best (B-Spline methods), S+Resample (bootstrap library), S+Bayes (bayesian analysis), S+FDA (functional data analysis). 
• User Contributed Libraries

Tinn-R Script Editor

• SourceForge Download Site - Download Tinn-R Setup Files; Tinn-R can serve as a script editor and "pager" for R Console.  See Tinn-R Convenient Script Editor for R on Win32 Platform

R

Download Site for the Current Windows Install Binary and R Packages

• Main CRAN Website
• CRAN Windows Binary - Installer for Win32 (also available for  MacOS X and Linux
• CRAN R Package Descriptions - Pdf manuals available for packages
• R Packages Organized by Topic - Organized by discipline and methodology

Web Interfaces to R Web Servers and Example R Scripts

• R Web Interfaces - Web/browser based interfaces to R script processing on a server
• Example R Scripts - Some of these scripts run on a server and results are communicated thru a web browser
• RSS Rweb Server - Link to http:/BayesContent.acs.unt.edu R server

R, R(D)COM and Excel 

• Introduction to R - ppt
• Using R with Excel - A (D)COM Server for the Windows Platform - Benchmarks article (needs updating badly - Rich)
• R(D)COM Server Homepage - Thomas Baier
• R(D)COM Listserve Archive
• Download for single install file - R-2.4.1, R(D)COM and RExcel only
• Download for single install file - R-2.4.1 - use this file for a comprehensive install of selectable components:  R, Rcmdr, R(D)COM, RExcel, rcom, gobbi, Rgobbi, and Tinn-R. R Version 2.5.0 combined install found here.
• Installing The R(D)COM server - Help Pages
• Using The R(D)COM server - Help Pages
• Using R Within Excel - Help Pages
• Duncan Temple Lang's R (D)COM Homepage
• Duncan Temple Lang's R (D)COM Notes
• Duncan Temple Lang's R (D)COM Client examples- directory  listing
• Duncan Temple Lang's R (D)COM Server - examples listing 
• General Computing Considerations

R and Survey Analysis

• Introduction to R
• Introduction to survey analysis in R
• Homepage for R Package "survey" - Thomas Lumley
• CRAN - download site for package "survey" - Thomas Lumley
• CRAN - Experimental revision of package "survey"
• PEAS - Practical Exemplars on the Analysis of Surveys
• Listing of survey packages and feature listing and comparisons
• Help pages (BayesContent.acs.unt.edu) for R package "survey"
• Help pages for R package "surveyNG" - connection to databases

Free R Books and Tutorials

• Kickstarting R - An HTML Beginners guide
• R for Beginners
• R for Data Analysis and Graphics
• R for Categorical Analysis
• R for Multilevel Analysis
• R for Probability Distributions
• R for Psychometric Research
• Notes on the use of R
• Simple R for Statistics
• Practical Regression and Anova Using R
• S Poetry -  S Poetry Website
• Introduction to Hmisc and Design Libraries
• Using R for Psychological Research - An HTML Guide
• Owen's Guide to R
• R-News (Bayesian Issue - March 2006)
• R-News (October 2006)
• R Cheatsheet

R Homepage and Resources

• R FAQ
• The Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN) - R is `GNU S', a freely available language and environment for statistical computing and graphics which provides a wide variety of statistical and graphical techniques: linear and nonlinear modelling, statistical tests, time series analysis, classification, clustering, etc. Please consult the R project homepage for further information.
• R Documentation
• Resources to learn R - UCLA
• R Graphics - Paul Murrell
• International Conferences - UseR 2008,  2007, 2006, 2005, 2004

UNT Benchmark Series on R

• An Introduction to Robust Measures of Location Using GNU S
• An Introduction to the Percentile Bootstrap Using GNU S
• The Calculation of Statistical Power Using the Percentile Bootstrap and Robust Estimation
• Using the Bootstrap with Small Data Sets: The Smoothed Bootstrap
• Dealing with Outliers in Bivariate Data: Robust Correlation
• Controlling the False Discovery Rate in Multiple Hypothesis Testing
• Using Mean and Robust Variance Estimates to Calculate Robust Effect Sizes
• An Introduction to Multilevel Models: Exploratory Growth Curve Modeling
• Interactive Graphics in R
• Interactive Graphics in R: Kernel Density Estimation in One and Two Dimensions
• Re-sampling Based Statistics in S-Plus for Windows: An Example Using the MANOVA Procedure
• R for the Windows Platform: Installation and Configuration
• R Commander: A Simple Windows Interface for R
• Using R with Excel - A (D)COM Server for the Windows Platform
• Two User Interfaces to the R Statistical System: Rcgi and Rcmdr
• Using Statistical Software in Classroom Instruction: S-Plus/R:  An Accessible Low Cost Alternative
• A Kinder, Gentler R - An Easier to Install Version of R for the Windows Platform
• Part I:  From the Source - R 2.2.0 on OS-X Tiger 10.4-3
• Part II: From the Source - R 2.2.0 on OS-X Tiger 10.4-3
• Bayesian Packages for R version 2.2.1
• Creating Web Based Documents that Give Access to the R Statistical Environment:  Examples Using the  "Through the Web"  HTML Editor - Kupu Editor
• Open Source Technology in the Classroom
• Tinn-R Convenient Script Editor for R on Win32 Platform
• Ade4TkGUI - A GUI for Multivariate Analysis and Graphical Display
• Can Somebody Give Me Some Help Here? R:  A Short Guide for the Uninitiated

Example Data Sets

• Depression Data
• SWLS Inventory Data
• SWLS Web Link
• Fernando Valley Data
• Simulating Factor Structure

Example R Scripts

• April 09, 2010

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