[R] Intro to Programming R Book
Roger Bivand
Roger.Bivand at nhh.no
Thu Aug 24 18:28:49 CEST 2006
On Thu, 24 Aug 2006, Joerg van den Hoff wrote:
> Raphael Fraser wrote:
> > I am new to R and am looking for a book that can help in learning to
> > program in R. I have looked at the R website suggested books but I am
> > still not sure which book best suite my needs. I am interesting in
> > programming, data manipulation not statistics. Any suggestions?
If you know German, then Uwe Ligges' 2005 book "Programmieren mit R" may
be what you are looking for. Some German-speakers I was teaching found it
very useful.
http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,,1-40109-22-26682866-0,00.html
> >
> > Raphael
> >
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>
> "S Programming" by Venables and Ripley (Springer) seems the only(?) one
> around targeting the language, not it's applications. luckily, it's very
> good. for the rest (things specific to R, e.g. package development,
> namespaces etc.) I think one can only resort to the R manuals .
>
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