An Introduction to R: Examples for Actuaries

Nigel De Silva (nigel.desilva@thomasmiller.com)

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1  Introduction

1.1 What is R?

1.2 R Packages

1.3 Online Resources

2  Some Preliminaries

2.1 Starting R in Windows

2.2 Getting help with functions and features

2.3 R Data Structures

2.4 R Graphics

2.5 Getting data into R

2.6 Getting data out of R

2.7 Examples Series

3 Examples

3.1 R as a Calculator

3.2 Data manipulation

3.3 Examining Distributions

3.4 Extreme Value Distributions

3.5 Generalized Linear Models – Stochastic Reserving