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. Thanks.
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Thanks for the reply, but RCurl looks like an interface to curl, which might be useful but it's not what I'm looking for. I am looking for a text to learn R. 2008/9/28 Ajay ohri <ohri2007 at gmail.com>:
someone mentioned the RCurl package recently On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 9:12 AM, June Kim <juneaftn at gmail.com> wrote:
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. Thanks.
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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.
That's probably because most people who use R are using it for its statistical specificity, and if they wanted to write a web server or a chess game or an image editor they'd do it another language! Have you really gone through all the documentation resources listed under the 'Documentation' section sidemenu from www.r-project.org? Try the list of 'other docs' on CRAN: http://cran.r-project.org/other-docs.html I think possibly the most stats-free reference is Chambers' "Programming with Data". Get a copy of that... Barry
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
On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 12:55 PM, June Kim <juneaftn at gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks for the reply, but RCurl looks like an interface to curl, which might be useful but it's not what I'm looking for. I am looking for a text to learn R.
I also had the same problem, I am new to R but not to programming. I would suggest get Venables & Ripley S Programming book before any other books. HTH Aval