The Guide
Preface
This document is an introduction to the program R. Although it could be a companion
manuscript for an introductory statistics course, it is designed to be used in a course onmathematical statistics.
The purpose of this document is to introduce many of the basic concepts and nuances of the
language so that users can avoid a slow learning curve. The best way to use this manual is to
use a “learn by doing” approach. Try the examples and exercises in the Chapters and aim to
understand what works and what doesn’t. In addition, some topics and special features of R
have been added for the interested reader and to facilitate the subject matter.