Posts tagged ‘PSU’

AstroStatistics Summer School at Penn State ’08

When: June 9-14, 2008
Where: Penn State
Registration deadline: Apr. 18, 2008 [Previous years, it ended weeks before.]
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Learning R

R is a programming language and software for statistical computing and graphics. It is the most popular tool for statisticians and a widely used software for statistical data analysis thanks to the fact that its source code is freely available and it is fairly easy to access from installation to theoretical application.

Most of information about R can be found at R Project including the software itself and many add-on packages. These individually contributed packages serve particular statistical interests of their users. The documentation menu on the website and each packages contain extensive documentations of how-to’s. Some large packages include demos so that following the scripts in a demo makes R learning easy.
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