Contents
1 What’s this all about?
 1.1 Getting started
 1.2 Versions of R
2 LURN… To Work R Blind
 2.1 Screen readers
 2.2 R and braille displays
 2.3 Setting up R as a blind Windows user
 2.4 Setting up R as a blind Mac user
 2.5 Setting up R as a blind Linux user
 2.6 Getting the most out of the R terminal window
 2.7 More advanced ways of running R programs
3 LURN… To Enter Data
 3.1 Using R as a simple calculator
 3.2 A simple set of numbers
 3.3 A simple set of text values
 3.4 Logical indicators
 3.5 A note on subscripting
 3.6 A patterned set of numbers
 3.7 Less pattern and more repetition
 3.8 Dates and times
 3.9 Larger data objects
 3.10 Appropriate data labelling
 3.11 Other approaches
4 LURN… To Import Data
 4.1 Data from external files
 4.2 Data saved by other statistical software
 4.3 Data from files stored on the internet
 4.4 Data contained in contributed packages
 4.5 Data cleanliness
5 LURN… To Manipulate your Datasets
 5.1 Sorting the data into a different order
 5.2 Extracting data using information on more than one variable
6 LURN… To Export a Dataset
 6.1 Creating external files
 6.2 Exporting data for use in alternative software
7 LURN… To Create Simple Graphs
 7.1 Histograms
 7.2 Basic annotations to graphs
 7.3 Other univariate summary graphs
 7.4 Quantile-quantile plots
 7.5 Scatter plots
 7.6 Scatter plot matrices
 7.7 Graphs for discrete valued variables
 7.8 Closing
8 LURN… To Examine Data Numerically
 8.1 Obtaining basic numerical summaries of data
 8.2 Obtaining slightly more elegant summaries
 8.3 Getting things printed how we want them
 8.4 Correlation structure within a data set
 8.5 Closing
9 LURN… To Save Results for Later Inspection
 9.1 Copying and pasting graphs
 9.2 Saving a graph using the menus
 9.3 Saving a graph using commands within your R program
 9.4 Saving output in a text file
 9.5 Saving the entire R Console
10 LURN… To Become More Efficient in your Workplace
 10.1 Managing R when you have multiple projects on the go
 10.2 Batch processing commands
 10.3 Running an R script without opening R under Windows
 10.4 Don’t re-invent any wheels
11 LURN… To Do Basic Inference
 11.1 Confidence intervals and hypothesis tests for the mean of one population
 11.2 Confidence intervals and hypothesis tests for the difference of two population means
 11.3 Confidence intervals and hypothesis tests for a proportion from one population
 11.4 Confidence intervals and hypothesis tests for the difference of two population proportions
 11.5 Hypothesis tests and confidence intervals for Correlation coefficients
 11.6 Testing the independence of two categorical variables
 11.7 Testing the normality of a distribution
12 LURN… To Perform Regression Analyses
 12.1 Data and suitable exploratory graphs
 12.2 The simple regression model
 12.3 Presenting the straight line model’s suitability in a graph
 12.4 Model validation using diagnostic plots
 12.5 Polynomial regression models
 12.6 Presenting the polynomial model’s suitability in a graph
 12.7 Multiple regression models
 12.8 Indicator variables
13 LURN… To Create Complex Graphs
 13.1 More than one graph in a single window
 13.2 Allowing different sized graphs to be included in a single window
 13.3 Using colour or different symbols
 13.4 Adding points to an existing graph
 13.5 Using lines instead of points
 13.6 Adding lines to an existing graph
 13.7 Adding text to an existing graph
 13.8 Adding a legend for different information within a graph
 13.9 More complex bar charts
 13.10 Contour plots
 13.11 Creation of maps
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