[R] General Question on learning R...

[Achim Zeileis]

On Tue, 03 May 2005 11:40:12 -0700 Spencer Graves wrote:

> 	  Yes.  Thanks for the elaboration.  What differences might one
> 	  expect 
> between the contents of "\demo" and "\R-ex"?  (I found "\R-ex" with
> all the packages I named, but not all had "\demo".)

`R-ex' contains the examples from the `man' pages and demo contains the
`demo' files. Whereas man pages are necessary to pass R CMD check, demo
files are not, so this is part of the reason while much more packages
have examples but not demos.

You can conveniently look at both, using examples() and demo() from
within R.
Z



> 	  spencer graves
> 
> There seem to be different
> 
> Jonathan Q. wrote:
> 
> > assuming one has these installed already, you just look in the demo
> > folder under each?  i.e., fBasics\demo ???
> > 
> > On 5/3/05, Spencer Graves <spencer.graves at pdf.com> wrote:
> > 
> >>         I'm looking at the same thing.  A good source for this is
> >to>'install.packages(c("fBasics", "fCalendar", "fExtremes",
> >"fMultivar",>"fOptions", "fPotfolio", "fractdiff", "fSeries", "its",
> >"lme4",>"zoo"))', then 'update.packages()'.  These will install
> >subdirectories>or folders with the indicated names "fBasics", etc.,
> >in "library" with>your R installation.  For example, in my Windows
> >installation, I have>"D:\Program files\R\rw2010pat\library", which
> >contains many subfolders>including ones named "fSeries".  These all
> >contain files "*.R", which>provide sample code.
> >>
> >>         spencer graves
> >>
> >>Sean Davis wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>On May 3, 2005, at 6:46 AM, Jonathan Q. wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>In the process of learning R, with a specific interest on
> >financial>>>time series.  While I continue to get through the
> >documents I am more>>>a fan of learning by example and then looking
> >up how each function is>>>used.  Any websites which post sample code
> >for R?>>>
> >>>
> >>>The largest source of example code is R itself.  If you have a
> >command>>in which you are interested, you can often just type the
> >command and the>>code will be shown to you.  Try typing:
> >>>
> >>>ls()
> >>>
> >>>Then:
> >>>
> >>>ls
> >>>
> >>>It will show you the code used to produce the result.  Also, each
> >>>command has its own example(s) in the help.
> >>>
> >>>Sean
> >>>
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