This book gives an introduction to R to build up graphing simulating and computing skills to
enable one to see theoretical and statistical models in economics in a unified way. The great
advantage of R is that it is free extremely flexible and extensible. The book addresses the
specific needs of economists and helps them move up the R learning curve. It covers some
mathematical topics such as graphing the Cobb-Douglas function using R to study the Solow
growth model in addition to statistical topics from drawing statistical graphs to doing
linear and logistic regression. It uses data that can be downloaded from the internet and
which is also available in different R packages. With some treatment of basic econometrics the
book discusses quantitative economics broadly and simply looking at models in the light of
data. Students of economics or economists keen to learn how to use R would find this book very
useful.
