[R] What is the difference between S and R?

[Peng Yu]

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 9:07 AM, Giovanni Petris <GPetris at uark.edu> wrote:
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> I have found a good refernce to be "S Programming" by Venables and
> Ripley.

I'll take a look at this book.

Since S and R are not completely the same, there are delicate
differences between S and R, which an S book may be confusing if I
want to learn R. One example is Statistical Models in S by Chambers
and Hastie, where some examples in this book is not applicable in R as
I pointed in my previous message to this mailing list some time ago.

Could somebody let me know if there is  a detailed comparison between
S and R to help me understand R better even if I use books for S?


>> I don't find a tutorial on S3. "Bengtsson.pdf" cites MASS (1999
>> edition). However, I don't think that MASS (2002 edition) clearly
>> explain what S3 is and help a user who knew very little about S3 to
>> quickly understand it. Could somebody let me know if there are some
>> better learning materials to help me smooth the learning curve?
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