Silva N. An Introduction to R: Examples for Actuaries

R – 2006, 40 pagesThis is a very brief introduction to R via a series of examples which are relevant to
actuarial work. These examples are aimed at R newbies so:
only a small fraction of R’s capabilities are examined in these examples.
there are many ways of achieving the same objective in R. These examples often
only consider a single approach and for educational purposes may not be the most
elegant solutions.
This document is no substitute to the many excellent resources available online and it
is strongly recommended that you review these. For example, a much more
comprehensive introduction to R is provided in Using R for Data Analysis and
Graphics – Introduction, Code and Commentary by J H Maindonald (http://cran.rproject.
org/DOC/contrib/usingR.pdf).I. Introduction
What is R?
R Packages
Online ResourcesII. Some Preliminaries
Starting R in Windows
Getting help with functions and features
R Data Structures
R Graphics
Getting data into R
Getting data out of R
Examples SeriesIII. Examples
R as a Calculator
Data manipulation
Examining Distributions
Extreme Value Distributions
Generalized Linear Models – Stochastic Reserving