[R] Learning R

[Benton, Paul]

Julia,

I can vouch for the 'Statistical Analysis in R'. Very good book, I learnt R from it. The other one to look at is Spoetry. It solves a lot of problem for me.

Paul

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


On 30 Nov 2009, at 17:17, Ben Seligman wrote:

> Hi Julia,
> 
> I'm also a newcomer to R and to this listserv (in the past two weeks).  One
> book that was recommended to me, and has been extraordinarily helpful in
> learning how to really make use of R, is "A Beginner's Guide to R", which
> focuses on data entry/import, data manipulation, functions, and plotting.  I
> quite literally went from barely being able to use R to finishing most of
> the analysis I need for a term paper in about 10 (well-rested) days thanks
> to it.
> 
> I've also heard great things about the Dalgaard text in terms of doing
> statistical analysis in R.
> 
> I hope that helps!
> 
> Cheers,
> Ben
> 
> On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 7:59 AM, Adaikalavan Ramasamy <
> a.ramasamy at imperial.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
>> Dear Julia,
>> 
>> Welcome. It is good that you wish to learn more about R.
>> 
>> R has certainly become very vast in the last few years. Do you wish to
>> learn R for a particular reason (financial analyses, multivariate,
>> prediction/classification, genetics)? You might get more targeted reading
>> materials, books and websites to follow up.
>> 
>> Regards, Adai
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Julia Cains wrote:
>> 
>>> Dear R helpers,
>>> 
>>> Almost 15 days back I have become member of this very active and wonderful
>>> group. So far I have been only raising  queries and in turn got them solved
>>> too and I really thank for the spirit this group member show when it comes
>>> to the guidance.
>>> 
>>> I wish to learn R language and I have given 2 months time for this. Can
>>> anyone please guide me as how do I begin i.e. from basics to advance.
>>> 
>>> R is such a vast thing to learn, so I wish to learn it step by step
>>> without getting lost at any stage.
>>> 
>>> Please guide me where do I start and upgrade myself to higher level step
>>> by step.
>>> 
>>> Regards
>>> 
>>> Julia
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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> 
> 
> -- 
> Benjamin Seligman
> Stanford University, School of Medicine
> MD Candidate, SMS II
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