best material for programmers?
Barry Rowlingson wrote:
2008/9/28 June Kim <juneaftn at gmail.com>:
Hello, What is the best material(book, pdfs, ...) for programmers, who have extensive experience in other programming languages, to learn R programming? I think there are many materials on how to use R for specific statistical jobs, but I haven't seen any material particularly designed for R programming.
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I think possibly the most stats-free reference is Chambers' "Programming with Data". Get a copy of that...
I would rather get the more recent Software for Data Analysis. Programming with R by John Chambers: http://www.springer.com/statistics/computational/book/978-0-387-75935-7 or R Programming for Bioinformatics by Robert Gentleman: http://www.crcpress.com/shopping_cart/products/product_detail.asp?sku=C6367&isbn=9781420063677&parent_id=&pc= HTH, Tobias