<P>The second edition of a bestselling textbook, <B>Using R for Introductory Statistics </B>guides students through the basics of R, helping them overcome the sometimes steep learning curve. The author does this by breaking the material down into small, task-oriented steps. The second edition maintains the features that made the first edition so popular, while updating data, examples, and changes to R in line with the current version.</P><B><P>See What¿s New in the Second Edition:</P><UL></B><P><LI>Increased emphasis on more idiomatic R provides a grounding in the functionality of base R.</LI><LI>Discussions of the use of RStudio helps new R users avoid as many pitfalls as possible.</LI><LI>Use of knitr package makes code easier to read and therefore easier to reason about.</LI><LI>Additional information on computer-intensive approaches motivates the traditional approach.</LI><LI>Updated examples and data make the information current and topical.</LI><P></P></UL><P></P><P>The book has