STATS 782, Semester 2, 2007

Lecturer:
David Scott
d.scott@auckland.ac.nz
Ext. 86830/85055
Room 721.343 Tamaki/Room 215, Building 303 (Maths/Physics) City

Course Information

• Course outline
• Introduction Lecture Slides
• Setting up email and internet access
• Lecture slides below are mostly a single slide to a page. If you wish to print them 4 slides to a page the following shell program slides4up will allow it. Make the file executable and ensure it can be found by the operating system then the usage is:
  
  slides4up name_of_slide_file_excluding_.pdf_extension
  
  For example to print Computers.pdf four slides to a page, use:
  
  slides4up Computers
  

Basics of Computer Hardware and Software

• An Introduction to PC hardware.
• Lecture Slides on Computers

Linux/Unix

• Lecture Slides on Unix from Ohio State University
• Notes on Unix from Ohio State University
• A Bash Quick Reference Card
• Gnome 2.14 User Guide
• Lecture Slides on Unix (includes recommendations and links for tutorials)

Software Tools and Text Editors

• The Emacs Manual
• An Emacs Tutorial
• Getting Started With XEmacs
• An XEmacs Reference Card
• Lecture Slides on XEmacs
• Example of TeX formatting to be emulated using OpenOffice sampleRH.pdf and unformatted text of this document sampleRH.txt

LaTeX

• The Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX; comprehensive guide to LaTeX.
• A more detailed guide for mathematical formulae
• The AUCTeX Manual for working with TeX using XEmacs
• A Reference Card for AUCTeX
• Lecture Slides on TeX
• Ross Ihakas Slide's on TeX, 8-up
• 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)
• The prosper manual (PDF seminar slides from LaTeX)
• The HA-prosper package: Documentation (Enhancement of the Prosper package)
• An example of a Prosper presentation and the tex file ProsperExample.tex which produced it.
• The file sample.tex used in Assignment 3.
• Links in slide programs and web-based materials are produced using the hyperref package. Here is the hyperref manual.

The S Language and R

• The R manual: "An Introduction to R"
• The R Project Home Page
• The local R download site
• Lecture Slides on R, and R examples to accompany them
• Ross Ihaka's Slides on the S language, 8-up
• A Reference Card for R from Tom Short
• The ESS Manual
• A Reference Card for ESS
• The R Data Import/Export manual
• An article on Date-Time Classes, see p.8
• An R Help Desk article on date and time classes, see p.29
• The A Tour of Trellis Graphics
• The Sweave User Manual
• An article on Sweave, Part I, see p.28
• The Writing R Extensions manual

MySQL

• James Curran's instructions on using installing and running MySQL on windows, and connecting with R.
• Lecture Slides on MySQL, and MySQL tutorial to accompany them.
• 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 the sample session used in the lecture slides.
• A file containing the input for the Maple examples used in the lecture slides.