Book Preface:
These notes are an introduction to using the statistical software package R for an introductory statistics course.They are meant to accompany an introductory statistics book such as Kitchens \Exploring Statistics”. The goals are not to show all the features of R, or to replace a standard textbook, but rather to be used with a textbook to illustrate the features of R that can be learned in a one-semester, introductory statistics course.
These notes were written to take advantage of R version 1.5.0 or later. For pedagogical reasons the equals sign,=, is used as an assignment operator and not the traditional arrow combination < -. This was added to R in version 1.4.0. If only an older version is available the reader will have to make the minor adjustment.
There are several references to data and functions in this text that need to be installed prior to their use.
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Book Link:

http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-lang.pdf

Book Preface:
This introduction to R is derived from an original set of notes describing the S and S-Plus environments written by Bill Venables and David M. Smith (Insightful Corporation). We have made a number of small changes to reflect differences between the R and S programs, and expanded some of the material.

We would like to extend warm thanks to Bill Venables (and David Smith) for granting permission to distribute this modified version of the notes in this way, and for being a supporter of R from way back.
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