Class will meet Tue 12-12:50 Thur 12-1:50 in CHS 41-235 (note correction)
and computer lab will meet 1:00 -- 1:50 or 2:00 -- 2:50 (pick one) Tuesday in CHS A1-241.
Labs will meet all Tuesdays including the first Tuesday Sept 30.
No lecture on Oct 21. There will be LAB this day, Oct 21, possibly no-host, depending on
when I am able to arrive.
Monday 12-12:50 Thur 2-2:50
Finals week: Mon Dec 8 11:00, Tues Dec 9 10:00 (note changed time from original schedule)
No text. However, there are several good books out there:
A good reference is R Graphics by Paul Murrell and published by Chapman and Hall (CRC Press).
See also Lattice: Multivariate Data Visualization with R by Deepayan Sarkar.
We will read An Introduction to R.
This is available with the R distribution as well as from this link.
An Introduction to R by Venables, Smith and the R development core team.
The software for the class is R. The latest
version of the R software is available for download. It runs on Mac, Windows and Unix machines.
To download R, click on the link to R. If you start R, you can get end the program by typing "q()" into the command line
editor (without the quotes of course). Alternatively go to the file menu and select "Exit".
In answer to the question about saving your session, I recommend "No" not saving it when in the
computer lab, but on your own computer enter "Yes" and save it.
After installing R, you may install Murrell's book's R package.
Murrell's web site.
Publisher's web site for the book.
The R software homepage.
R software
Download R and install it on your home computer
Pick a "CRAN Mirror."
I usually use Berkeley when I download the latest version of R.
Under Precompiled Binary Distributions, click on "Windows".
Click on "base".
Click on "R-2.7.2-win32.exe".
Save to disk and run the installation.
This gives you R and the main packages that run in R.
There are tons of additional packages as well.
Start R and go to the Packages menu. Go to "Set CRAN mirror...". Pick a USA mirror.
Go back to the Packages menu. Select "Install Packages ..." A menu box will
appear. Go down a long way until you find "RGraphics". Select it and click "OK".
To produce figure 1.1 from Murrell's book, type 'figure1.1()' (without the quotes) into R.
Similarly for any other figure.
Some other courses on statistical graphics
Jennifer Cook at Columbia.
Cleveland at Purdue.
Robert Weiss http://rem.ph.ucla.edu/~rob/ Department of Biostatistics e-mail: robweiss at ucla.edu UCLA School of Public Health FAX: (310) 267-2113 Los Angeles, CA 90095-1772 USA Phone: (310) 206-9626
Phone: (310) 206-9626