S-Plus and R Resources

The following are suggested S-Plus and R references and resources.

Books

• Venables WN and Ripley BD (2002). Modern Applied Statistics with S (4th edition). Springer-Verlag, New York. Online material. (Note earlier editions of this book were titled "Modern Applied Statistics with S-Plus.)
  
  
• Krause A and Olson M (2005). The Basics of S-PLUS (4th edition). Springer-Verlag, New York. Online material. Online version of 3rd edition (Harvard PIN required).
  
  
• Chambers JM (1998). Programing with Data: A Guide to the S Language. Springer-Verlag, New York. Online material.
  
  
• Venables WN and Ripley BD (2000). S Programming. Springer-Verlag, New York. Online material.
  
  
• Becker RA, Chambers JM, & Wilks AR (1988). The New S Language. Wadsworth & Brooks/Cole, Pacific Grove, CA. (Out of print)
  
  
• Chambers JM and Hastie TJ (1992). Statistical Models in S. Wadsworth & Brooks/Cole, Pacific Grove, CA. (Out of print)
  
  

Online

• Here is the official Splus documentation from Insightful's web site (PDF format):
  • Getting Started: Version 6, Version 5.1
  • Guide to Statistics, Volume 1: Version 6, Version 5.1
  • Guide to Statistics, Volume 2: Version 6, Version 5.1
  • Unix User's Guide: Version 6, Version 5.1
  • Programmers Guide: Version 6, Version 5.1 not available.
  
  
• Statistics 335 Splus/R Overheads
  • Introduction to S-Plus/R (September 25, 2003)
  • Splus/R intro part 2 (October 2, 2003)
  • Trellis graphics (October 9, 2003)
  • Models in S-Plus/R (October 16, 2003)
  • Programing in S-Plus/R (October 23, 2003)
  
  
• An Introduction to S and the Hmisc and Design Libraries by Carlos Alzola and Frank Harrell.
  
  
• S for Statistical Data Analysis and Graphics by Frank Harrell.
  
  
• R/Rpad Reference Card
  
  
• R tips
  
  
• S Archive at StatLib. Note that a number of the packages available here are very old and may not run correctly under more current versions of S-Plus.
  
  
• S-Plus News e-mail list.
  
  
• S Poetry.
  
  
• Insightful - sellers of S-Plus.
  
  

Software Sources

• The R Project for Statistical Computing. To download R to install on your own machine, click on the CRAN link and choose a convenient mirror. (Linux, MacOS 8.6 or later, Windows)
  
  
• bugs.R: functions for running WinBugs from R
  
  
• S-Plus 6.0 for Windows (Win 95 or later) is available from Cabot Library. Catalog listing.
  
  
• S-Plus 6.1 (Release 2) for Linux is available from Cabot Library. Catalog listing.
  
  
• ESS - Emacs Speaks Statistics
  
  
• An Introduction to ESS + XEmacs for Windows Users of R by John Fox.
  
  
• XEmacs. This version of Emacs for Windows contains ESS, plus many other Emacs packages, as part of the main installation.

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Copyright 2005 by Mark E. Irwin