[R] R Book Advice Needed

[Gabor Grothendieck]

There are some online sources that you might find useful.  You could
get started on those while you decide what books to get:

- CRAN contributed documentation
  http://cran.r-project.org/other-docs.html

- S Poetry
  http://www.burns-stat.com/pages/spoetry.html

- Zoonekynd book
  http://zoonek2.free.fr/UNIX/48_R/all.html

- R manuals
  http://cran.r-project.org/manuals.html

- R News
  http://cran.r-project.org/doc/Rnews/

- various packages have vignettes which are PDF documents that discuss the
  package, often at length.
    vignette()  # shows vignettes for installed packages

- there was a vignette browser posted to r-devel recently
  http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/e2/devel/07/06/3498.html

On 6/12/07, ngottlieb at marinercapital.com <ngottlieb at marinercapital.com> wrote:
> I am new to using R and would appreciate some advice on
> which books to start with to get up to speed on using R.
>
> My Background:
> 1-C# programmer.
> 2-Programmed directly using IMSL (Now Visual Numerics).
> 3- Used in past SPSS and Statistica.
>
> I put together a list but would like to pick the "best of"
> and avoid redundancy.
>
> Any suggestions on these books would be helpful (i.e. too much overlap,
> porly written etc?)
>
> Books:
> 1-Analysis of Integrated and Co-integrated Time Series with R (Use R) -
> Bernhard Pfaff
> 2-An Introduction to R - W. N. Venables
> 3-Statistics: An Introduction using R - Michael J. Crawley
> 4-R Graphics (Computer Science and Data Analysis) - Paul Murrell
> 5-A Handbook of Statistical Analyses Using R - Brian S. Everitt
> 6-Introductory Statistics with R - Peter Dalgaard
> 7-Using R for Introductory Statistics - John Verzani
> 8-Data Analysis and Graphics Using R - John Maindonald;
> 9-Linear Models with R (Texts in Statistical Science) - Julian J.
> Faraway
> 10-Analysis of Financial Time Series (Wiley Series in Probability and
> Statistics)2nd edition - Ruey S. Tsay
>
> Thanks.
>
> Neil Gottlieb