** TMA4300 Computer Intensive Statistical Methods spring 2017 ** ====== Statistical software ====== R is available for free download at [[http://cran.r-project.org/|The Comprehensive R Archive Network]] (Windows, Linux and Mac). It is recommended that you install [[http://rstudio.org/|Rstudio]] which is an integrated development environment (system where you have you script, your run-window, overview of objects and a plotting window). A nice introduction to R can be found in [[http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-0-387-79054-1|P. Dalgaard (2009). Introductory Statistics with R, 2nd edition]] (which is available as an ebook from the NTNU library when you are in the NTNU network). Several R manuals can be found [[http://cran.r-project.org/manuals.html|at CRAN]]. A short introduction can be found on the [[http://www.math.ntnu.no/~mettela/TMA4267/V2014/E1Rintro.pdf|course webpage of TMA4267]]. At youtube there are several videos that introduces R and specific topics.