Statistics for Geography and Environmental Science: an introduction in R

This e-book is offered as a learning resource to accompany the textbook 'Statistics for Geography and Environmental Science' by Richard Harris and Claire Jarvis (Prentice Hall, 2011). Its specific focus is to consider some of the statistical methods and techniques presented in that book and show how they are undertaken in the statistical computing software called R. It will be of interest to teachers and to students who are using R for the first time and want a simple introduction to it. This book does not pretend to be a comprehensive introduction to either statistics or to R. On the statistical side, it is designed to be read with the parent textbook, to which cross-references are made, offering directed reading and guided learning. A recommended text for R is the Introduction to R which comes with the software and also is available at http://cran.r-project.org/manuals.html. For a more detailed exposition see 'R in a Nutshell' by Joseph Adler (O'Reilly, 2010). For a detailed treatment of statistics in R see 'Data Analysis and Graphics using R' by John Maindonald and John Braun (2nd edition, Cambridge University Press, 2007) or 'Statistics: an Introduction using R' by Michael Crawley (Wiley, 2005).