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5 messages · Siddhant Gupta, Franklin Bretschneider, Jeff Newmiller +2 more

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Franklin Bretschneider
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On 30 Dec 2012, at 12:22 , Siddhant Gupta wrote:

            

      
      
      
    

        

      
      
    

        
Yes, quite a lot!

At:

http://ftp.iitm.ac.in/cran/


Succes, and
Best wishes,



Franklin Bretschneider
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Dept Biologie
Kruytgebouw W711
Padualaan 8
3584 CH Utrecht
The Netherlands

  
  


  


      

    

    

      
      

        


  

        

      Jeff Newmiller
    

    

      
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Efficiency of learning materials depends on your background and learning style. If you have any background at all in using software, the Introduction to R document that is supplied with R is quite good. There is also a very useful document on getting data in and out of R. There is a list of R books on the CRAN website you can refer to. 

Contributed packages (typically loaded using the "library" function) have their own documentation, and in some cases have their own mailing lists. No central book or document can be relied on to steer you to the perfect packages for your needs, so learn to use the ? shortcut in R, Google, RSiteSearch(), or the sos package to look for supporting functionality.

You can also learn quite a bit by lurking on this list and reading answers to other people's questions.
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Siddhant Gupta <sid.2311.sg at gmail.com> wrote:

        

            

      
      
      
    

  
  


  


      

    

    

      
      

        
      

    

    

      
      

        


  

        

      John Kane
    

    

      
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It is very dependent on your background and what you  are planning to do. Because R is a tool that seems to be used by everyone from linguists to biochemists and everyone has their special interest it is often best to just google for what  you are looking for.  

Here aresome  sources that I find are helpful.

R FOR SAS AND SPSS USERS
www.et.bs.ehu.es/~etptupaf/pub/R/RforSAS&SPSSusers.pdf

Tutorial 
http://www.unt.edu/rss/class/Jon/R_SC/

http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/google-r-style.html

Short R reference sheet
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B8NgE2q8ITzTQnhPTFVjVXlOaHM/edit?pli=1

There are a number of short articles and even some books available on CRAN. Click on OTHER.

The "Introduction to R" is extremely useful and should be read but I'd suggest that it is not the first document you read.  It can be a bit overwhelming at first.

Also to use R effiiently you need a good editor or IDE.
http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Best-R-text-editors-td903450.html

Just reading this list can be incredibly informative and when you are really stuck ask a question here but please read https://github.com/hadley/devtools/wiki/Reproducibility before asking it.    This makes helping you much easier and you don't get nasty remarks thrown at you.

Welcome to the R world


John Kane
Kingston ON Canada

            

      
      
      
    

        

      
      
    

        
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