any book and tutorial about how to manipulate data with R/S+

Hallo,

Am Samstag, 12. M?rz 2005 15:08 schrieb Wensui Liu:

In real world, data manipulation might take even longer time and
more effort than statistical analysis and modeling.

Does anyone know a good book and tutorial about data manupulation?
Thank you so much.

Well, it would be much easier to meet your demands if you could give 
us an idea what you exactly looking for.
Anyway, there are some recommendations in R-Manual regarding 
introduxtory materials on doing statistics in R. If I remember 
correctly there are also some advices on r-cran.org in the generell 
FAQ.
If you're looking for some introductory stuff doing data manipulation 
in R the book of Peter Dalgaard, Introductory Statistics with R 
should be taken into consideration.
Not long time ago there was a similar question to this list, giving 
the whole range of available books on statistics in S/R . Have a look 
at http://maths.newcastle.edu.au/~rking/R/, you'll will be 
overwhelmed.
Last but not least, if you look at r-cran website you'll find in 
contributed section some case-oriented tutorials, i.e. data mining or 
similar stuff!

regards

Thomas