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=Welcome to R Stats= = =
 * History of R Stats**

The lab is created by grad students for grad students. Students in my lab (the [|LESA Lab] at [|Memorial University]) arrive and get told that I don't buy stats packages for the lab (the horror, the horror). So if they want to save money (and since grad students are usually broke, this goes without saying) - they have to learn [|R] (the horror, the horror).

Happily, several students have survived the process, and come out stronger for it.

However, they've kindly left a trail of resources for future students, as well as current students in the lab, and in the department. In the spirit of R's Open Source/Open Access policy, we've expanded what was going to be a help "binder" in the lab into an online resource. Hence, this wiki.


 * What's the Wiki for?**

This is intended to be a resource for beginning to intermediate users of the [|R statistical package]. It is written by and for graduate students in Biology, although other users may find it useful. General stats help for packages other than R may be shared here, but the focus is on R software, since it is a freeware.


 * How do I use it?**

1) Browse the Table of Contents 2) Feel free to edit/comment on pages based on your own experience 3) Feel free to add a page for another stats function/feature/package that you have mastered and want to share with the world.

-- Yolanda F. Wiersma, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Biology Memorial University St. John's, NL A1B 3X9, Canada

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