Statistics using R : an integrative approach This first edition of Statistics Using R: An Integrative Approach capitalizes on the versatility and power of the R software package to create a course of study that links good statistical and data science practice to the analysis of real data. It also benefits from the many years of the authors experience teaching statistics to undergraduate students at a liberal arts university and to undergraduate and graduate students at a large research university from a variety of disciplines including education psychology health and policy analysis. Because R a free open source software provides a command line approach to the analysis of data and in so doing this textbook teaches readers the skills necessary to program statistical analyses