STATS 779, Semester 1, 2011

Lecturers:
James Curran
j.curran@auckland.ac.nz
Ext. 88755
Room 267, Building 303 (Maths/Physics) City

Course Information

• Course outline

The Emacs Text Editor

• The full Emacs manual from the Free Software Foundation is over 500 pages, and more than 3Mb. It is here if you want it: Emacs Manual
• An Emacs Tutorial
• An Emacs Reference Card
• An on-linebook about Emacs: Sams Teach Yourself Emacs in 24 Hours

LaTeX

• The Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX; comprehensive guide to LaTeX.
• A more detailed guide for mathematical formulae
• A Reference Card for LaTeX
• A Reference Card for LaTeX emphasising AMSTeX
• A comprehensive guide to symbols available in LateX: The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbols List detailing nearly 5000 symbols
• A Reference Card for symbols in TeX
• The AUCTeX Manual for working with TeX using XEmacs
• A Reference Card for AUCTeX
• The graphics guide by David Carlisle
• The Using EPS Graphics in LaTeX and pdfLaTeX by Keith Reckdahl
• The Beamer manual (PDF seminar slides from LaTeX)
• A nice document Making Presentations with LaTeX which discusses Beamer, Prosper and TeXPower
• Links in slide programs and web-based materials are produced using the hyperref package. Here is the hyperref manual.

The S Language and R

• A Reference Card for R from Tom Short
• The ESS Manual
• A Reference Card for ESS
• An article on Date-Time Classes
• An R Help Desk article on date and time classes
• The A Tour of Trellis Graphics
• The Sweave User Manual
• An article on Sweave, Part I, see p.28

MySQL

• Some instructions on installing and running MySQL on windows, and connecting with R.
• The data for the wine cellar example in .csv format Cellar.csv; the code to create the MySQL data table createCellar.sql; and the R code to access the table using RODBC RODBCExample.R

Maple

• Lecture Slides on Maple
• A file containing the input for a sample session using Maple
• A file containing some further Maple examples.