title: The Art of R Programming: A Tour of Statistical Software Design
author: Norman Matloff
description: <strong>From the Author: Why Use R for Your Statistical Work?</strong>
zlib_text: Beginning R
  An Introduction to Statistical Programming
  Larry Pace
  
  Beginning R: An Introduction to Statistical Programming
  Copyright © 2012 by Larry Pace
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