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8.4.2008 MSIS 2008, Luxembourg: Valentin Todorov R: An Open Source Statistical Environment  Valentin Todorov UNIDO v.todorov@ Outline Introduction: the R Platform and Availability R Learning Curve (is R hard to learn) R Extensibility (R Packages) R and the others (Interfaces) R Graphics R for Time series R for Survey Analysis R and the Outliers (Robust Statistics in R) More R features (WEB, Missing data, OOP, GUI) Summary and Conclusions What is R R is “ a system for statistical computation and graphics. It provides, among other things, a programming language, high-level graphics, interfaces to other languages and debugging facilities” Developed after the S language and environment S was developed at Bell Labs (John Chambers et al.) S-Plus: a value added implementation of the S language- Insightful Corporation much code written for S runs unaltered under R Significantly influenced by Scheme, a Lisp dialect What is R Ihaka and Gentleman, University of Auckland (New Zealand) 1993 a preliminary version of R 1995 released under the GNU Public License Now: R-core team consisting of 17 members including John Chambers R provides a wide variety of statistical (linear and non-linear modelling, classical statistical tests, time-series analysis, classification, clustering, robust methods and many more) and graphical techniques R is available as Free Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). R Extensibility (R Packages) One of the most important features of R is its extensibility by creating packages of functions and data. The R package system provides a framework for developing, documenting, and testing extension code. Packages can include R code, documentation, data and foreign code written in C or Fortran. Packages are distributed through the CRAN repository – - currently more than 1300 packages covering a wide variety of statistical methods and algorithms. ‘base’ and ‘recommended’ packages are included in all binary distributions. R