[R] Loop: noob question

[Bert Gunter]

I think that Josh may have inadvertently left out Venables's and
Ripley"s MASS (the book), which is what I would choose if I were
marooned on a desert island with my computer, a power supply, and
unlimited mai tai's. Also Mozart's Piano Concerti if I had to limit my
music to just one composer ( :-)  )

I think John Chambers's latest book is also worth a look. Hard to find
a more authoritative author than he (or V & R, for that matter).

-- Bert

On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 10:50 AM, Ken H <vicvoncastle at gmail.com> wrote:
> That's a good point Josh is correct,
> Its the R Bible because its the size of the Bible and serves as a very good
> reference. I agree that it is definitely not a first blush kind of book. I
> second the regression book, it is excellent.
> Cryer and Chan Time Series Analysis with Applications in R is pretty good if
> you're into that kind of thing...
> Did not know about the data manipulation or graphics books, I'll definitely
> be checking those out.
>
>  Thanks for the info,
>          Ken
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Joshua Wiley <jwiley.psych at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 9:20 AM, Ken H <vicvoncastle at gmail.com> wrote:
>> [snip]
>> >   And that should be it, as far as relevant reading
>> > Peter Daalgard's Introductory Statistics with R is very good if you do
>> not
>> > know other programming languages.
>>
>> I would strongly second this.  It is a very nice book.  What book to
>> read depends a bit exactly what your goals are---data manipulation?
>> Statistics (and then what kind)?  Programming?  etc.
>>
>> For statistics beyond Peter Dalgaard's book, I like John Fox's Applied
>> Regression with Companion to Applied Regression (which uses R and is
>> also the 'car' package).
>>
>> I have been pretty happy with Phil Spector's book Data Manipulation with R.
>>
>> For graphics in R I would suggest ggplot2 by Hadley Wickham or lattice
>> by Deepayan Sarkar (they are both books and packages).
>>
>> For programming I would look at S Programming by Venables & Ripley.
>>
>> > Crowleys R Book is the Bible as it were, and is very very good.
>> Electronic
>> > copies are available.
>>
>> The R Book is very large, but it has some problems in my opinion.  It
>> uses some styles that are often okay, but can cause problems (e.g.,
>> using attach, using function names for data).  I would turn elsewhere
>> first.  All of the other books I recommended (except Data Manipulation
>> with R) are written by people who also develop and maintain R Core or
>> substantial R packages (i.e., they are experts in what they are
>> talking about).
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Josh
>>
>>
>> --
>> Joshua Wiley
>> Ph.D. Student, Health Psychology
>> Programmer Analyst II, ATS Statistical Consulting Group
>> University of California, Los Angeles
>> https://joshuawiley.com/
>>
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Bert Gunter
Genentech Nonclinical Biostatistics