Basic Help

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From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch 
[mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Marisa Ramos
Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 8:49 AM
To: R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: [R] Basic Help


OK I have been trying to learn how to use this program and I 
cannot even 
import any data into it.  I have downloaded all the manuals 
but they do not 
seem to help.  Is there a book on R for dummies???

Chapter 7 in "An Introduction to R" explains how to read the data in, it
should be pretty good....if you're still unsure, look at the
documentation for read.table() and scan().

Chapter 2 of my incomplete book,
http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~kwan022/pub/R/RBook/, has a short
explanation about data structure in R.  The chapter has sort of been
complete (it's in the draft version).... 

HTH,

Kevin Wang

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Ko-Kang Kevin Wang, MSc(Hon)
Statistics Workshops Co-ordinator
Student Learning Centre
University of Auckland
New Zealand