Installing R statistical package on Fedora

If you are operating on Fedora (or any other flavors of Linux), chances are that there is availability of pre-built package of R.

On Fedora 16, I did
$> sudo yum info R
Installed Packages
Name        : R
Arch        : x86_64
Version     : 2.15.1
Release     : 1.fc16
Size        : 0.0 
Repo        : installed
From repo   : updates
Summary     : A language for data analysis and graphics
URL         : http://www.r-project.org
License     : GPLv2+
Description : This is a metapackage that provides both core R userspace and
            : all R development components.
            :
            : R is a language and environment for statistical computing and
            : graphics. R is similar to the award-winning S system, which was
            : developed at Bell Laboratories by John Chambers et al. It provides
            : a wide variety of statistical and graphical techniques (linear and
            : nonlinear modelling, statistical tests, time series analysis,
            : classification, clustering, ...).
            :
            : R is designed as a true computer language with control-flow
            : constructions for iteration and alternation, and it allows users
            : to add additional functionality by defining new functions. For
            : computationally intensive tasks, C, C++ and Fortran code can be
            : linked and called at run time.

To install R on fedora,
$> sudo yum install R

Now that you have installed R,  go read up on it at http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-intro.html