On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 9:07 AM, Giovanni Petris <GPetris at uark.edu> wrote:
I have found a good refernce to be "S Programming" by Venables and Ripley.
I'll take a look at this book. Since S and R are not completely the same, there are delicate differences between S and R, which an S book may be confusing if I want to learn R. One example is Statistical Models in S by Chambers and Hastie, where some examples in this book is not applicable in R as I pointed in my previous message to this mailing list some time ago. Could somebody let me know if there is a detailed comparison between S and R to help me understand R better even if I use books for S?
I don't find a tutorial on S3. "Bengtsson.pdf" cites MASS (1999 edition). However, I don't think that MASS (2002 edition) clearly explain what S3 is and help a user who knew very little about S3 to quickly understand it. Could somebody let me know if there are some better learning materials to help me smooth the learning curve?
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