Contents

List of Figures
Primer priming
RLaB  is freely available
Acknowledgments
Document reproduction and errors
Requirements
How to Read This Primer

Introduction
Starting to use RLaB 
How to run it
Help
Simple calculations
Variable assignment and display
User Interface: command recall & editing

Objects—Basic Data Structures
Data Types
Object Hierarchy
Numerics

Program Flow Control
If-Statement
While-Statement
For-Statement
Break and Continue Statements

Objects—Program Functions
Function Syntax
Function Scoping Rules
Function Argument Passing
Function Recursion
Files
Example

Objects—Other Data Structures
Strings
Lists

Builtin functions
Function Behavior

Input and Output
Plotting
2-D Plotting
Histograms
3-D Plotting

Summary