[R] best material for programmers?

[Tobias Verbeke]

Barry Rowlingson wrote:
> 2008/9/28 June Kim <juneaftn at gmail.com>:
>> Hello,
>>
>> What is the best material(book, pdfs, ...) for programmers, who have
>> extensive experience in other programming languages, to learn R
>> programming? I think there are many materials on how to use R for
>> specific statistical jobs, but I haven't seen any material
>> particularly designed for R programming.

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>  I think possibly the most stats-free reference is Chambers'
> "Programming with Data". Get a copy of that...

I would rather get the more recent
	
Software for Data Analysis. Programming with R by John Chambers:

http://www.springer.com/statistics/computational/book/978-0-387-75935-7

or

R Programming for Bioinformatics by Robert Gentleman:

http://www.crcpress.com/shopping_cart/products/product_detail.asp?sku=C6367&isbn=9781420063677&parent_id=&pc=

HTH,
Tobias