Beginning R: The Statistical Programming Language Mark Gardener
Publisher: Wrox Press, Inc.

As a language, it's very intuitive… for a statistician. } setbeamercovered{again covered={opaqueness<1->{25}}} onslide<1-> R is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics [href{http://www.r-project.org/}{r-project.org}]~ onslide<2-> R is a computer language that allows the user to program algorithms and use tools that have been programmed by others [Zuur et al. While I'm not a software engineer, R is a very compelling statistical tool. The first presentation hspace{0.2em}? Download link; Statistical programming language with light GUI on top. Statisticians don't really get web programming and web programmers don't really get statistics. R-bloggers | R news & tutorials from the web R news and tutorials, collected from a list of over 250 R blogs, helping you master the R language for statistical programming.. Benefits: free, cross-platform, on the forefront of academic research – if any new method of stat analysis, machine learning, etc . It's an interactive, interpretive, functional, object oriented, statistical programming language. The stats are understandably basic but they should be useful for beginning R users.