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Thursday, 06 May, 2010 (20100506)
Consider updating to R 2.11.0
http://cran.stat.ucla.edu/bin/macosx/
Files
Here is the
R script
for this session.
You can find the final plot
here
as a PDF (~17KB) or
here
as a PNG (~846KB, not included on default page because of size)
Outline
A
vignette
from the R-help list
"May I respectfully suggest that you not use a system that you don't
understand to compute the dosages of highly toxic drugs ?????" --- Ben Bolker
Packages: they're
crantastic!
What are they?
How do you get them?
When should you use them?
When CRANberries go bitter
Review from last week
by(), matrix(), subsetting using indices,
barplot() (briefly)
Colors in R: the default palette, hexadecimals, and getting creative with
rgb
Also check out my
mainsite
for an alternate link to the code for color.viewer()
and details about it.
An interactive session
Learning Objectives
Choosing colors (and making your own)
Rudimentary knowledge of creating multi-figure displays