[R] Help on getting help from manuals

[Greg Snow]

For programming you should start with "Writing R Extensions" (just scan the sections that don't apply to you yet).  I would also recommend "S poetry" by Patrick Burns (http://www.burns-stat.com/) and "S Programming" by Venables and Ripley.

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Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D.
Statistical Data Center
Intermountain Healthcare
greg.snow at imail.org
801.408.8111


> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-
> project.org] On Behalf Of ManInMoon
> Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 2:41 AM
> To: r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: [R] Help on getting help from manuals
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> A number of people have suggested "I read the manuals"...
> 
> Could someone help me by telling me where the primary start point is
> please?
> 
> For example, I am interested in writing functions with variable number
> of
> arguments - where should I start to look?
> 
> "An introduction to R" only show a brief example - with no pointer to
> where
> to find further data.
> 
> I can't do ?xxx from R console in most cases - as I don't know what the
> function name is that I am looking for!!!
> 
> People have helped me find "substitute" to get some metadata out - BUT
> how
> could I have found that without guidance from nice people in Nabble?
> 
> Any help on this very much appreciated.
> 
> 
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