User Guide: R Project - secviz/davix GitHub Wiki

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Tool for statistical analysis that offers a great variety of graphing capabilities.

An Introduction to R

• Start R Project : Applications | DAVIX | Visualize | R Project | R.
• After receiving the R command prompt you can start the demo by executing:

  demo(graphics())

• Step through the demo by pressing ENTER.
• When you are back on the R command prompt you can start R Commander by executing the command:

  library(“Rcmdr”)

• To load some sample data set select in the window menu Data\Data in packages\Read data set from an attached package…
• Double click on the entry datasets.
• To visualize, select Graph\Histogram… in the main window menu.
• In the Histogram configuration dialog select the variable you want to visualize, e.g. height, and then acknowledge the dialog.
• The histogram is now plotted.