Dear R-Representative: I am very new to R and I have to admit that I am not the cleverest of users. So, please bear with me. I have installed R on my Mac OS 8.6. I am interested in eventually using the packages -- many useful ones have been downloaded with the basic R software. I have looked through some of the manuals, however, I have not yet found how to access the commands in these packages. I am assuming there are ways to include the functions available in these packages in some kind of path. I have used UNIX and I use my Mac mainly as a word processor, but would like to learn R on the Mac and perhaps later for research, possibly on a new Mac. So, my question is, what kind of set up is required for me to use these packages? Sorry for such an inane question, but I've decided that you will be able to help me much more quickly than I am able to find what I need at this point. Thank you VERY MUCH. Sincerely, Sonia Bauer -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Sonia.Bauer.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 257 bytes Desc: Card for Sonia Bauer Url : https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/attachments/20021203/9e1d9154/Sonia.Bauer.vcf
On 3 Dec 2002 at 15:51, Sonia Bauer wrote:> Dear R-Representative: > I am very new to R and I have to admit that I am not the cleverest of > users. So, please bear with me. I have installed R on my Mac OS 8.6. > I am interested in eventually using the packages -- many useful ones > have been downloaded with the basic R software. I have looked through > some of the manuals, however, I have not yet found how to access the > commands in these packages. I am assuming there are ways to include > the functions available in these packages in some kind of path. I > have used UNIX and I use my Mac mainly as a word processor, but would > like to learn R on the Mac and perhaps later for research, possibly on > a new Mac. So, my question is, what kind of set up is required for me > to use these packages? Sorry for such an inane question, but I've > decided that you will be able to help me much more quickly than I am > able to find what I need at this point. Thank you VERY MUCH. > Sincerely, Sonia BauerOn Windows you can access packages through menu/packages/load package or if you know the "name of the package" by library(name of the package) By the way I *strongly recommend* to read "Introduction to R" or some other documentation (I presume already downloaded and stored in /doc path. You can find many of good sources from CRAN or through internet search eg.StatsRus, J.H.Maindonald's - Using R for data analysis...,. Cheers Petr Pikal petr.pikal at precheza.cz p.pik at volny.cz
The Hmisc and Design libraries also have some useful functions, especially for data management. The Intro to S-plus by Alzola and Harrell is quite direct and user-friendly. You can find this at: http://hesweb1.med.virginia.edu/biostat/s/splus.html Good luck! In a message dated 12/3/02 3:52:50 PM Eastern Standard Time, Sonia.Bauer@noaa.gov writes:> Dear R-Representative: > I am very new to R and I have to admit that I am not the cleverest of > users. So, please bear with me. I have installed R on my Mac OS 8.6. > I am interested in eventually using the packages -- many useful ones > have been downloaded with the basic R software. I have looked through > some of the manuals, however, I have not yet found how to access the > commands in these packages. I am assuming there are ways to include the > functions available in these packages in some kind of path. I have used > UNIX and I use my Mac mainly as a word processor, but would like to > learn R on the Mac and perhaps later for research, possibly on a new > Mac. So, my question is, what kind of set up is required for me to use > these packages? > Sorry for such an inane question, but I''ve decided that you will be able > to help me much more quickly than I am able to find what I need at this > point. > Thank you VERY MUCH. > Sincerely, > Sonia Bauer > >[[alternate HTML version deleted]]
On Wed, 4 Dec 2002 TyagiAnupam at aol.com wrote:> The Hmisc and Design libraries also have some useful functions, especially > for data management. The Intro to S-plus by Alzola and Harrell is quite > direct and user-friendly. You can find this at: > > http://hesweb1.med.virginia.edu/biostat/s/splus.htmlThose packages are not available for classic MacOS, though, as I read that site. -- Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272860 (secr) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595