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

[Tom La Bone]

IMHO "The R Book" is far better than indicated in that review and should be
near the top of the list for beginners looking for a "manual" for R.

Tom


Katharine Mullen wrote:
> 
> 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,
>>
>> I've recently discovered "The R Book" by Micheal J. Crawley. I am new to
>> R and I am finding it incredibly useful.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Just curious: What have been the experiences of others who have used The
>> R Book?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Bob Harris
>>
>>
>>
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