R is the amazing free open-access software package for scientific graphs & calculations used by scientists worldwide. The R Student Companion is a student-oriented manual describing how to use R in high school & college science & mathematics courses. Written for beginners in scientific computation the book assumes the reader has just some high school algebra & has no computer programming background. The author presents applications drawn from all sciences & social sciences &
Includes:: the most often used features of R in an appendix. In addition each chapter provides a set of computational challenges: exercises in R calculations that are designed to be performed alone or in groups. Several of the chapters explore algebra concepts that are highly useful in scientific applications such as quadratic equations systems of linear equations trigonometric functions & exponential functions. Each chapter provides an instructional review of the algebra concept followed by a hands-on guide to performing calculations & graphing in R. R is intuitive even fun. Fantastic publication-quality graphs of data equations or both can be produced with little effort. By integrating mathematical computation & scientific illustration early in a student's development R use can enhance one's understanding of even the most difficult scientific concepts. While R has gained a strong reputation as a package for statistical analysis The R Student Companion approaches R more completely as a comprehensive tool for scientific computing & graphing.