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The Roadmap is a section that will start each chapter by providing a commented table of contents. It also usually contains indications on the purpose of the chapter.
The bare essentials, in other words.
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If you decide to skip this chapter, be sure to at least print the handy R Reference Card available at http://cran.r-project.org/doc/contrib/Short-refcard.pdf that summarizes, in four pages, the major commands of R.
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Once again, R is a freely distributed and open-source language.
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The main CRAN Website is http://cran.r-project.org/.
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Packages that have been validated and tested by the R core team are listed at http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/PACKAGES.html.
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The variable e is not predefined in R as exp(1).
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Positive and negative indices cannot be used simultaneously.
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Lists can contain lists as elements.
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Marin, JM., Robert, C.P. (2014). User’s Manual. In: Bayesian Essentials with R. Springer Texts in Statistics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8687-9_1
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