The R software package

R is a free software package for probabilty and statistics computations. It is easy to use and yet can do very powerful things. It is widely used in statistics and worth knowing. There are versions for all the standard operating systems (Windoze, Mac and Linux).

The R homepage

You can find info on downloading it at the site above. You will need R in the first homework set, so download it now.

A tutorial on R

A very short intro to R (courtesy of Prof. Faris)