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* R FAQ: (R-FAQ). The R statistical system FAQ.
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* R FAQ: (R-FAQ). The R statistical system FAQ.
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R FAQ
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R FAQ
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Frequently Asked Questions on R
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Frequently Asked Questions on R
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Version 1.8-19, 2003-11-26
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Version 1.8-20, 2003-11-27
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ISBN 3-900051-01-1
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ISBN 3-900051-01-1
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Kurt Hornik
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Kurt Hornik
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Table of Contents
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Table of Contents
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port of R for Macintosh is no longer supported.
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port of R for Macintosh is no longer supported.
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2.6 Are there Unix binaries for R?
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2.6 Are there Unix binaries for R?
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The `bin/linux' directory of a CRAN site contains Debian stable/testing
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The `bin/linux' directory of a CRAN site contains Debian
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packages for the i386 platform (now part of the Debian distribution and
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stable/testing/unstable packages for the i386 platform (now part of the
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maintained by Dirk Eddelbuettel), Mandrake 9.0/9.1 i386 packages by Michele
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Debian distribution and maintained by Dirk Eddelbuettel), Mandrake 9.0/9.1
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Alzetta, Red Hat 7.x/8.x/9 i386 packages by Martyn Plummer, SuSE
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i386 packages by Michele Alzetta, Red Hat 7.x/8.x/9 i386 packages by Martyn
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7.3/8.0/8.1/8.2/9.0 i386 packages by Detlef Steuer, and VineLinux 2.6 i386
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Plummer, SuSE 7.3/8.0/8.1/8.2/9.0 i386 packages by Detlef Steuer, and
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packages by Susunu Tanimura.
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VineLinux 2.6 i386 packages by Susunu Tanimura.
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The Debian packages can be accessed through APT, the Debian package
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The Debian packages can be accessed through APT, the Debian package
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maintenance tool. Simply add the line
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maintenance tool. Simply add the line
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deb http://cran.R-project.org/bin/linux/debian DISTRIBUTION main
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To understand what names are "valid", one needs to take into account
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To understand what names are "valid", one needs to take into account
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that the term "name" is used in several different (but related) ways in the
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that the term "name" is used in several different (but related) ways in the
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language:
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language:
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1. A _syntactic name_ is a string the parser interprets as this type of
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1. A _syntactic name_ is a string the parser interprets as this type of
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expression. It consists of letters, numbers, and the dot character
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expression. It consists of letters, numbers, and the dot and (for
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version of R at least 1.9.0) underscore characters, and starts with
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not syntactic names.
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assigned in an expression either by having the object name on the left
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assigned in an expression either by having the object name on the left
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of an assignment operation or as an argument to the `assign()'
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of an assignment operation or as an argument to the `assign()'
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function. It is usually a syntactic name as well, but can be any
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function. It is usually a syntactic name as well, but can be any
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