Purpose The following slides are intended as review of or as a basic introduction to the statistical analysis platform R.They are by no means exhaustive! The class web page contains links to more extensive introductions and they should be consulted when these slides raise questions. The internal documentation accompanying R via Help on the R toolbar is another resource.More on Help later. Also,it is always useful to experiment with certain command ideas to see and understand/interpret what happens. Start right away as you reread these slides to get a feel. We will be using R extensively throughout this course. 1Purpose The following slides are intended as review of or as a basic introduction to the statistical analysis platform R. They are by no means exhaustive! The class web page contains links to more extensive introductions and they should be consulted when these slides raise questions. The internal documentation accompanying R via Help on the R toolbar is another resource. More on Help later. Also, it is always useful to experiment with certain command ideas to see and understand/interpret what happens. Start right away as you reread these slides to get a feel. We will be using R extensively throughout this course. 1