[R] The R Book - great resource for R beginners

[Katharine Mullen]

It was reviewed in the most recent R News
(http://www.r-project.org/doc/Rnews/Rnews_2007-2.pdf).

On Thu, 29 Nov 2007, Robert Harris wrote:

> Hi all,
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> I've recently discovered "The R Book" by Micheal J. Crawley. I am new to R and I am finding it incredibly useful.
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> With my background in math and programming, I expected that I would be able to pick it up quickly, but even after reading several other intro books, I found it was still hard to figure out how to get data into R and how dataframes relate to vectors and actually doing statistics with R.
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> But, The R Book is well written and gives plenty of examples and explains many of the often used tools within R. It's both a tutorial and a relatively advanced reference book for R, very accessible to a beginner like me.
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> Just curious: What have been the experiences of others who have used The R Book?
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> Thanks,
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> Bob Harris
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