R Book Advice Needed
There are some online sources that you might find useful. You could get started on those while you decide what books to get: - CRAN contributed documentation http://cran.r-project.org/other-docs.html - S Poetry http://www.burns-stat.com/pages/spoetry.html - Zoonekynd book http://zoonek2.free.fr/UNIX/48_R/all.html - R manuals http://cran.r-project.org/manuals.html - R News http://cran.r-project.org/doc/Rnews/ - various packages have vignettes which are PDF documents that discuss the package, often at length. vignette() # shows vignettes for installed packages - there was a vignette browser posted to r-devel recently http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/e2/devel/07/06/3498.html
On 6/12/07, ngottlieb at marinercapital.com <ngottlieb at marinercapital.com> wrote:
I am new to using R and would appreciate some advice on which books to start with to get up to speed on using R. My Background: 1-C# programmer. 2-Programmed directly using IMSL (Now Visual Numerics). 3- Used in past SPSS and Statistica. I put together a list but would like to pick the "best of" and avoid redundancy. Any suggestions on these books would be helpful (i.e. too much overlap, porly written etc?) Books: 1-Analysis of Integrated and Co-integrated Time Series with R (Use R) - Bernhard Pfaff 2-An Introduction to R - W. N. Venables 3-Statistics: An Introduction using R - Michael J. Crawley 4-R Graphics (Computer Science and Data Analysis) - Paul Murrell 5-A Handbook of Statistical Analyses Using R - Brian S. Everitt 6-Introductory Statistics with R - Peter Dalgaard 7-Using R for Introductory Statistics - John Verzani 8-Data Analysis and Graphics Using R - John Maindonald; 9-Linear Models with R (Texts in Statistical Science) - Julian J. Faraway 10-Analysis of Financial Time Series (Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics)2nd edition - Ruey S. Tsay Thanks. Neil Gottlieb