These are notes that were turned into a book: Using R for Introductory Statistics, published Fall 2004 by Chapman Hall/CRC Press. The book is a substantial improvement. These notes are left up as they are a bit cheaper.
The simpleR package is now inside the UsingR package available from
CRAN. In the Windows GUI, this may be installed from a menubar
item. Otherwise, the following command
> install.packages("UsingR")
will work if you have sufficient permissions to install a package, or have set up R to install to a local area.
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16 Installing R
The main website for R is http://www.r-project.org. You can find information about obtaining R. It is freely downloadable and there are pre-compiled versions for Linux, Mac OS and Windows.To install the binaries is usually quite straightforward and is similar to installation of other software. The binaries are relatively large (around 10Mb) and often there are sets of smaller files available for download.
As well, the ``R Installation and Administration'' manual from the distribution is available for download from
http://cran.r-project.org/.This offers detailed instructions on installation for your machine.
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