STATS X410A Statistics with : From Data to Graphics in R Spring 2014

Course Information Instructor and Office: Vivian Lew, Math Sciences 8923 Meeting Time and Location: W 6:00pm - 9:00pm Boelter 9413 Contact Info: [email protected] Office Hours: By appointment appointment. Please feel free to make appointments on almost any day of the week, e-mail me first to arrange it.

Course Web Site: http://www.stat.ucla.edu/˜vlew/statX410A/

Course Content This is the first Track of a three Track course in R. This sequence focuses on the basics of R and is designed to get users comfortable working with the R language, data and basic graphics. All assignments for credit will be turned in to me via e-mail at [email protected].

Course Materials (all optional) It is entirely your decision as to whether you should purchase any of these. The course is taught from my notes but I relied on the following books and web pages • R in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference by Joseph Adler. O’Reilly 2010. ISBN:059680170X. • The Art of R Programming by Norman Matloff. No Starch Press 2011. ISBN13: 978-1-59327-384-2 • R Cookbook by Paul Teetor. O’Reilly 2011. ISBN: 0596809158. • Introductory Statistics with R (Statistics and Computing) Second Edition by . Springer 2008. ISBN: 0387790535. But get this and other Springer publications for free by visiting www.springerlink.com while on campus or via VPN from home. • : Elegant Graphics for Data Analysis (Use R) by . Springer 2009. ISBN: 0387981403. Also get this from Springer publications for free. • http://www.r-bloggers.com/ • http://www.rseek.org/ • http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/r • R Style – https://github.com/hadley/devtools/wiki/Style – http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/google-r-style.html

Software: R is free for you to download, it’s download location:

http://www.r-project.org/ However, in this course, we use a version called R Studio, it is also free: http://rstudio.org/ You should download and install the newest version of R before installing R Studio.

Statistics X410A R Vivian Lew STATS X410A Statistics with R: From Data to Graphics in R Spring 2014

For Credit/Letter Grade Students: You will need to complete three assignments. Assignments 1 and 2 are due on April 16th and Assignment 3 is due April 23rd.

For Pass/Not Pass/Unsatisfactory Students: You need to complete one assignment. Assignments 1 and 2 are due on April 16th and Assignment 3 is due April 23rd (choose one assignment to complete)

Not for Credit?: You can relax, there are no assignments and no attendance requirements.

Statistics X410A R Vivian Lew