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A Statypus Updating r.statypus.org

Figure 0.1: A Statypus Updating r.statypus.org

The platypus is covered in fur and has a tail similar to a beaver, but it also has webbed feet and a bill like a duck!3

Thank you for visiting statypus.org. We are glad to see you here.

This website is designed to be used to help students in an introductory statistics class learn the material through using the computer software R and RStudio. It was developed from lectures given by Dr. Phil Huling at Saint Louis University and originally compiled as PDFs in the fall semester of 2024 and will first be used as statypus.org in the spring semester of 2025.

All of the resources here are free to use by anyone. If you have any questions or suggestions, please email the author at .

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(Yes, the typo above is a known typo and left as a joke.)

The file called GettingRStudioRunning.pdf can be used as a quick guide to installing R and RStudio running on your computer. One can also go to the following Web Site.

Simply for your viewing pleasure, here is a live webcam from the San Diego Zoo Safari Park.

  1. Well, I guess the (bad) jokes start right from the title. The program R is named after both of it’s founders, Ross Ihaka and Robert Gentleman, but it is also a take on the software it was designed to be backwards compatible with, S. The title of S was chosen in 1979 to match software like C (both of which were developed at Bell Labs), but it does stand for Statistics.↩︎

  2. … and C is for Cookie↩︎

  3. Shaw, George; Nodder, Frederick Polydore (1799). “The Duck-Billed Platypus, Platypus anatinus”. The Naturalist’s Miscellany. 10 (CXVIII): 385–386↩︎