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In this chapter, we begin with the most basic aspects of R: installing it, checking the installation by demonstrating some of its impressive graphics capabilities, and showing how it can be used as a powerful calculator. We will go well beyond these capabilities in subsequent chapters, but they should demonstrate that R can be a constant presence on your desktop for the kinds of calculations and graphs for which you would otherwise use a handheld graphics calculator or spreadsheet.
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Bloomfield, V. (2009). Calculating with R. In: Computer Simulation and Data Analysis in Molecular Biology and Biophysics. Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0083-8_1
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