Statistics 335 - S Plus and R

Statistics 335 - S Plus and R

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 (2002). The Basics of S-PLUS (3rd edition). Springer-Verlag, New York. Online material.
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.
An Introduction to S and the Hmisc and Design Libraries by Carlos Alzola and Frank Harrell.
S-Plus for Statistical Data Analysis and Graphics by Frank Harrell.
R tips
Stat 214 S-Plus Intro. Introduction to S-Plus for Stat 214 course written by Elizabeth Stuart.
Government 2002 Class materials. Includes introductory information for S-Plus and R for the Government 2002 class.
S Archive at StatLib. Note that a number of the packages available here are very old and may not run correctly under more current version of S-Plus.
S-Plus News e-mail list.
S Poetry.
Insightful - sellers of S-Plus.
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.