[R] (no subject)

[Brett Stansfield]

can you recommend a good manual for R that starts with a data set and gives
demonstrations on what can be done using R? I downloadedR Langauage
definition and An introduction to R but haven't found them overly useful.
I'd really like to be able to follow some tutorials using a dataset or many
datasets. The datasets I have available on R are

Data sets in package 'datasets':

AirPassengers           Monthly Airline Passenger Numbers 1949-1960
BJsales                 Sales Data with Leading Indicator
BJsales.lead (BJsales)
                        Sales Data with Leading Indicator
BOD                     Biochemical Oxygen Demand
CO2                     Carbon Dioxide uptake in grass plants
ChickWeight             Weight versus age of chicks on different diets
DNase                   Elisa assay of DNase
EuStockMarkets          Daily Closing Prices of Major European Stock
                        Indices, 1991-1998
Formaldehyde            Determination of Formaldehyde
HairEyeColor            Hair and Eye Color of Statistics Students
Harman23.cor            Harman Example 2.3
Harman74.cor            Harman Example 7.4
Indometh                Pharmacokinetics of Indomethicin
InsectSprays            Effectiveness of Insect Sprays
JohnsonJohnson          Quarterly Earnings per Johnson & Johnson Share
LakeHuron               Level of Lake Huron 1875-1972
LifeCycleSavings        Intercountry Life-Cycle Savings Data
Loblolly                Growth of Loblolly pine trees
Nile                    Flow of the River Nile
Orange                  Growth of orange trees
OrchardSprays           Potency of Orchard Sprays
PlantGrowth             Results from an Experiment on Plant Growth
Puromycin               Reaction velocity of an enzymatic reaction
Seatbelts               Road Casualties in Great Britain 1969-84
Theoph                  Pharmacokinetics of theophylline
Titanic                 Survival of passengers on the Titanic
ToothGrowth             The Effect of Vitamin C on Tooth Growth in
                        Guinea Pigs
UCBAdmissions           Student Admissions at UC Berkeley
UKDriverDeaths          Road Casualties in Great Britain 1969-84
UKgas                   UK Quarterly Gas Consumption
USAccDeaths             Accidental Deaths in the US 1973-1978
USArrests               Violent Crime Rates by US State
USJudgeRatings          Lawyers' Ratings of State Judges in the US
                        Superior Court
USPersonalExpenditure   Personal Expenditure Data
VADeaths                Death Rates in Virginia (1940)
WWWusage                Internet Usage per Minute
WorldPhones             The World's Telephones
ability.cov             Ability and Intelligence Tests
airmiles                Passenger Miles on Commercial US Airlines,
                        1937-1960
airquality              New York Air Quality Measurements
anscombe                Anscombe's Quartet of "Identical" Simple
                        Linear Regressions
attenu                  The Joyner-Boore Attenuation Data
attitude                The Chatterjee-Price Attitude Data
austres                 Quarterly Time Series of the Number of
                        Australian Residents
beaver1 (beavers)       Body Temperature Series of Two Beavers
beaver2 (beavers)       Body Temperature Series of Two Beavers
cars                    Speed and Stopping Distances of Cars
chickwts                Chicken Weights by Feed Type
co2                     Mauna Loa Atmospheric CO2 Concentration
discoveries             Yearly Numbers of Important Discoveries
esoph                   Smoking, Alcohol and (O)esophageal Cancer
euro                    Conversion Rates of Euro Currencies
euro.cross (euro)       Conversion Rates of Euro Currencies
eurodist                Distances Between European Cities
faithful                Old Faithful Geyser Data
fdeaths (UKLungDeaths)
                        Monthly Deaths from Lung Diseases in the UK
freeny                  Freeny's Revenue Data
freeny.x (freeny)       Freeny's Revenue Data
freeny.y (freeny)       Freeny's Revenue Data
infert                  Infertility after Spontaneous and Induced
                        Abortion
iris                    Edgar Anderson's Iris Data
iris3                   Edgar Anderson's Iris Data
islands                 Areas of the World's Major Landmasses
ldeaths (UKLungDeaths)
                        Monthly Deaths from Lung Diseases in the UK
lh                      Luteinizing Hormone in Blood Samples
longley                 Longley's Economic Regression Data
lynx                    Annual Canadian Lynx trappings 1821-1934
mdeaths (UKLungDeaths)
                        Monthly Deaths from Lung Diseases in the UK
morley                  Michaelson-Morley Speed of Light Data
mtcars                  Motor Trend Car Road Tests
nhtemp                  Average Yearly Temperatures in New Haven
nottem                  Average Monthly Temperatures at Nottingham,
                        1920-1939
precip                  Annual Precipitation in US Cities
presidents              Quarterly Approval Ratings of US Presidents
pressure                Vapor Pressure of Mercury as a Function of
                        Temperature
quakes                  Locations of Earthquakes off Fiji
randu                   Random Numbers from Congruential Generator
                        RANDU
rivers                  Lengths of Major North American Rivers
rock                    Measurements on Petroleum Rock Samples
sleep                   Student's Sleep Data
stack.loss (stackloss)
                        Brownlee's Stack Loss Plant Data
stack.x (stackloss)     Brownlee's Stack Loss Plant Data
stackloss               Brownlee's Stack Loss Plant Data
state.abb (state)       US State Facts and Figures
state.area (state)      US State Facts and Figures
state.center (state)    US State Facts and Figures
state.division (state)
                        US State Facts and Figures
state.name (state)      US State Facts and Figures
state.region (state)    US State Facts and Figures
state.x77 (state)       US State Facts and Figures
sunspot.month           Monthly Sunspot Data, 1749-1997
sunspot.year            Yearly Sunspot Data, 1700-1988
sunspots                Monthly Sunspot Numbers, 1749-1983
swiss                   Swiss Fertility and Socioeconomic Indicators
                        (1888) Data
treering                Yearly Treering Data, -6000-1979
trees                   Girth, Height and Volume for Black Cherry
                        Trees
uspop                   Populations Recorded by the US Census
volcano                 Topographic Information on Auckland's Maunga
                        Whau Volcano
warpbreaks              The Number of Breaks in Yarn during Weaving
women                   Average Heights and Weights for American Women


Use 'data(package = .packages(all.available = TRUE))'
to list the data sets in all *available* packages.

Brett Stansfield 
Environmental Scientist - Water Quality 
Hawke's Bay Regional Council 
102 Vautier Street 
Private Bag 6006 
Napier 
Phone (06) 835-9200 extn 9334 
Fax (06) 835-3601