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11 messages · Julia Cains, Meyners, Michael, LAUSANNE, AppliedMathematics, Paul Hiemstra +8 more

Meyners, Michael, LAUSANNE, AppliedMathematics
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Julia, see 

http://www.r-project.org/ -> Documentation -> Manuals (-> An introduction to R) (or use: http://cran.r-project.org/manuals.html)

for a starting point. In addition, you might want to check the annotated list of books to see which one might best fit your needs:

http://www.r-project.org/doc/bib/R-books.html

You might also want to browse through the FAQs at some stage, you can learn a lot of useful things there. Or look additionally into the Wiki, if that's more your style of learning. You see, plenty of options from which you'd need to select the one that best meets your requirements. 

HTH, Michael
Paul Hiemstra
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Hi Julia,

I would really recommend reading a book on R. A good option might by the 
"Introductory statistics with R" by Peter Dalgaard, or the MASS (Modern 
Applied Statistics with S) book. The advantage of a book is that it 
presents a coherent overview, saving you time to wade through the 
enormous amount of information available. The wiki, FAQ and such are far 
more useful if you have a good understanding of the basics in R. What 
also helps if to find someone at your work, university or such that has 
experience with R. I learned a lot from colleagues, and now I can 
sometimes helps someone else out.

cheers and good luck!
Paul
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      Hrishi Mittal
    

    

      
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These are some good resources for learning R:

Quick-R - http://www.statmethods.net/

            

      
      
      
    

        
UCLA Resources to help you learn and use R - http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/r/

Good luck!

  
    

      
      
    

  


  


      

    

    

      
      

        


  

        

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Julia Cains wrote:

            

      
      
      
    

        
I heard some time back that O'Reilly is coming out with a book on R .. not
sure if that's out yet, or how good it might be. Worth looking into ...

Esmail

ps: Just checked, 'R in a Nutshell':
     http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596801717
     release date dec 2009/jan 2010

  
  


  


      

    

    

      
      

        


  

        

      Adaikalavan Ramasamy
    

    

      
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Dear Julia,

Welcome. It is good that you wish to learn more about R.

R has certainly become very vast in the last few years. Do you wish to 
learn R for a particular reason (financial analyses, multivariate, 
prediction/classification, genetics)? You might get more targeted 
reading materials, books and websites to follow up.

Regards, Adai

        
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      Benton, Paul
    

    

      
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Julia,

I can vouch for the 'Statistical Analysis in R'. Very good book, I learnt R from it. The other one to look at is Spoetry. It solves a lot of problem for me.

Paul

http://www.burns-stat.com/pages/spoetry.html

        
On 30 Nov 2009, at 17:17, Ben Seligman wrote:

        

            

      
      
      
    

        

      
      
    

            

      
      
      
    

        

      
      
    

  
  


  


      

    

    

      
      

        


  

        

      Johannes Hüsing
    

    

      
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Esmail <esmail.js at gmail.com> [Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 01:07:15PM CET]:

            

      
      
      
    

        
You can't really judge a book by its cover, and in this case not even
the cover is presented to us. But judging by the author's background,
I'd presume that you are likely to get a computer scientist's intro
to R. This is an angle that very few books have taken so far ... most
are written by statisticians who write from the problem solving point
of view. If you are a statistician, you are probably well served with
some of the books available on R. Among these, I too found Venables 
and Ripley a good read, as they give you some depth on S the language,
rather than talking about "101 wonderful things you can do with R".

  
    

      
      
    

  


  


      

    

    

      
      

        


  

        

      susan jacobs
    

    

      
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Hi,

im working in R but honestly i don t know how to apply the formulas in my
problem, can someone give some help?


I already learn how we use the formulas but im not understanding the main
issue in my problem.

        
Johannes Huesing wrote:

            

      
      
      
    

        

      
      
    

        

  
    

      
      
    

  


  


      

    

    

      
      

        


  

        

      DispersionMap
    

    

      
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Data Analysis and Graphics Using R - An Example-Based Approach 
John Maindonald and John Braun
2nd edn, Cambridge University Press, January 2007

        
susan jacobs wrote: