Contents

• Introduction and Preliminaries
  • Reference manuals
  • S-PLUS and X-windows
  • Using S-PLUS interactively
  • An introductory session
  • S-PLUS and UNIX
  • Getting help with functions and features
  • S-PLUS commands. Case sensitivity.
  • Recall and correction of previous commands
    • S-PLUS
    • Vanilla S
  • Executing commands from, or diverting output to, a file
  • Data directories. Permanency. Removing objects.
• Simple manipulations; numbers and vectors
  • Vectors
  • Vector arithmetic
  • Generating regular sequences
  • Logical vectors
  • Missing values
  • Character vectors
  • Index vectors. Selecting and modifying subsets of a data set
• Objects, their modes and attributes
  • Intrinsic attributes: mode and length
  • Changing the length of an object
  • attributes() and attr()
  • The class of an object
• Categories and factors
  • A specific example
  • The function tapply() and ragged arrays
• Arrays and matrices
  • Arrays
  • Array indexing. Subsections of an array
  • Index arrays
  • The array() function
    • Mixed vector and array arithmetic. The recycling rule
  • The outer product of two arrays
    • An example: Determinants of digit matrices
  • Generalized transpose of an array
  • Matrix facilities. Multiplication, inversion and solving linear equations.
  • Forming partitioned matrices. cbind() and rbind().
  • The concatenation function, c(), with arrays.
  • Frequency tables from factors. The table() function
• Lists, data frames, and their uses
  • Lists
  • Constructing and modifying lists
    • Concatenating lists
  • Some functions returning a list result
    • Eigenvalues and eigenvectors
    • Singular value decomposition and determinants
    • Least squares fitting and the decomposition
  • Data frames
    • Making data frames
    • attach() and detach()
    • Working with data frames
    • Attaching arbitrary lists
• Reading data from files
  • The scan() function
  • The read.table() function
  • Other facilities; editing data
• More language features. Loops and conditional execution
  • Grouped expressions
  • Control statements
• Writing your own functions
  • Defining new binary operators.
  • Named arguments and defaults. ``...''
  • Assignments within functions are local. Frames.
  • More advanced examples
    • Efficiency factors in block designs
    • Dropping all names in a printed array
    • Recursive numerical integration
  • Customizing the environment. .First and .Last
  • Classes, generic functions and object orientation
• Statistical models in S-PLUS
  • Defining statistical models; formulæ
  • Regression models; fitted model objects
  • Generic functions for extracting information
  • Analysis of variance; comparing models
    • ANOVA tables
  • Updating fitted models. The ditto name ``.''
  • Generalized linear models; families
    • Families
    • The glm() function
    • The gaussian family
    • The binomial family
    • Poisson models
    • Quasi-likelihood models
  • Nonlinear regression models; parametrized data frames
    • Changes to the form of the model formula
    • Specifying the parameters
    • Example
  • Some non-standard models
• Graphical procedures
  • High-level plotting commands
    • The plot() function
    • Displaying multivariate data
    • Display graphics
    • Arguments to high-level plotting functions
  • Low-level plotting commands
  • Interactive graphics functions
  • Using graphics parameters
    • Permanent changes: the par() function
    • Temporary changes: arguments to graphics functions
  • Graphics parameters list
    • Graphical elements
    • Axes and Tick marks
    • Figure Margins
    • Multiple figure environment
  • Device drivers
    • PostScript diagrams for typeset documents.
    • Multiple graphics devices
• S-PLUS: An Introductory Session
• The Inbuilt Command Line Editor in S-PLUS
  • Preliminaries
  • Editing Actions
  • Command Line Editor Summary
• Exercises
  • The Cloud Point Data
    • Description
    • Data
  • The Janka Hardness Data
    • Description
    • Data
  • The Tuggeranong House Price Data
    • Description
    • Data
  • Yorke Penninsula Wheat Data
    • Description
    • Data
  • The Iowa Wheat Yield Data
    • Description
    • Data
  • The Gasoline Yield Data
    • Description
    • Data
  • The Michaelson-Morley Speed of Light Data
    • Description
    • Data
  • The Rat Genotype Data
    • Description
    • Data
  • Fisher's Sugar Beet Data
    • Description
    • Data
  • A Barley Split Plot Field Trial.
    • Description
    • Data
  • The Snail Mortality Data
    • Description
    • Data
  • The Kalythos Blindness Data
    • Description
    • Data
    • Problems
  • The Stormer Viscometer Data
    • Description
    • Data
  • The Chlorine availability data
    • Description
    • Data
  • The Saturated Steam Pressure Data
    • Description
    • Data
  • Count Rumford's Friction Data
    • Description
    • Data
  • The Jellyfish Data.
    • Description
    • Data
  • Archaelogical Pottery Data
    • Description
    • Data
  • The Beaujolais Quality Data
    • Description
    • Data
  • The Painter's Data of de Piles
    • Description
    • Data
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