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8 messages · Vanesa Maribel Fernández, Albyn Jones, A.G. WARRACK +4 more

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Albyn Jones
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Hi Vanesa

I'd start with free documentation, available on the CRAN websites.
Under the Documentation links, take a look at Manuals: An Introduction
to R.  In the Contributed section there are several documents that you
may find useful.

albyn
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 06:08:35AM -0700, Vanesa Maribel Fern?ndez wrote:
Laura Chihara
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"The R Book" by Crawley (Wiley) is comprehensive and very useful.
It got a nice review in the latest issue of "The American
Statistician"

-Laura
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I'm new to R, but there are two books that I have found very helpful... 
Most of the students that I teach are "social science" graduate 
students... I think that John Verzani's book "Using R for Introductory 
Statistics" is extremely well suited for that audience.  I also like 
Michael Crawley's "Statistics: An Introduction using R" and Phil Good's 
"Introduction to Statistics through Resampling Methods and R/S-Plus.

Also very helpful has been Ugarte, Militino, and Arnholt's "Probability 
and Statistics with R."

wbw

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AGW> but I think also it's very expensive, and as I recall
    AGW> the review in the R newsletter wasn't that good.

yes, and I've also found it bit astonishing that someone who has
not ever been close to the development R dares to write 
"*THE* R book" ..

    AGW> Also Venables and Ripley cover a lot of the material
    AGW> that Vanesa mentioned.  GW

yes, and boht have been close to the development of S and R for
many years.

Martin

    AGW> On 8/20/08, Laura Chihara <lchihara at carleton.edu>

        
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    >> "The R Book" by Crawley (Wiley) is comprehensive and very
    >> useful.  It got a nice review in the latest issue of "The
    >> American Statistician"
    >> 
    >> -Laura
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>> Vanesa Maribel Fern?ndez wrote:

        
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    >>> Hallo! My name is Vanesa; I am a biology PhD student
    >>> from Argentina. I am used to carry out statistical
    >>> analysis of data from our experiments. And I would like
    >>> to have a book to learn how to use ???R??
    >>> for statistical. I need one which contains for example:
    >>> analysis of categorical data, regression, ANOVA (fixed,
    >>> mixed, repeated measures nestled), etc.  Can you help me
    >>> to choose a book? Thank you very much.  Vanesa
    >>> 
    >>> 
    >>> 
    >>> 
    >>> ----- Original Message ---- From: "Thomas, Judy"
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    >>> 2008 11:27:42 AM Subject: [R-sig-teaching] ANNOUNCEMENT:
    >>> COMPLIMENTARY REVIEW COPIES OF NEW R BOOKS FROM CHAPMAN
    >>> & HALL/CRC!
    >>> 
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Vanesa, I concur with "The R Book". I probably have 90% of the R free
literature printed in hard copy and I've read them twice at least. I
find "The R Book" excellent; and I anxiously waiting for the next
edition (hopefully with corrections and additions). Today, it is my
first choice to find for something in R. If I do not find it there
(which is not usual), then I look into other resources including R lists
and publications. Hope this helps.

        
On Wed, 2008-08-20 at 12:17 -0500, Laura Chihara wrote: