[R] R Beginner - Need Perhaps 5 - 10 Minutes of R User Time to Learn Few Basics

[Ista Zahn]

On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 8:45 AM, PIKAL Petr <petr.pikal at precheza.cz> wrote:
> Hi
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-
>> project.org] On Behalf Of Zach Feinstein
>> Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2013 2:57 PM
>> To: r-help at r-project.org
>> Subject: [R] R Beginner - Need Perhaps 5 - 10 Minutes of R User Time to
>> Learn Few Basics
>>
>> I have finally decided that I will learn R and learn it very well. For
>
> If you really decided to invest in learning R you shall first read R-Intro documentation especially chapters 2 and 3 and 1.11.
>
> Eventually you could read whole 102 pages document. It shall not take you more than a week and after that you will be able to do quite sophisticated analysis.
>
> I do not know Rstudio or Rattle but once you taste R console way maybe together with some suitable editor (I use Tinn-R) you will hardly need any GUI add-on.

Rstudio basically gives you a suitable editor and an R console, albeit
in an IDE layout. It is what I recommend for newbies who don't already
know emacs.

Best,
Ista

>
> Regards
> Petr
>
>> now I am using a program that a friend of mine developed to do some
>> advanced statistical analyses. I downloaded RStudio to my machine.
>> [Perhaps RStudio is not the best platform to work from -  I have heard
>> that Rattle is sort of the new standard.] I have so far been able to
>> highlight the rows of the code that I wish to run, but then I somehow
>> turned off seeing the output. I also cannot find where I would locate
>> the output window. Yes, frustrated.
>>
>> Would any kind soul be interested in helping kickstart my R learning? I
>> have JoinMe installed on my machine so I figure we can do it
>> interactively. It should not take more than a few minutes. I am already
>> very experienced with both C and VBA languages as well as SPSS syntax
>> so there is not much need to worry about me being too much of a novice.
>>
>> Thank you very much in advance.
>>
>> Zach Feinstein
>> zfeinstein at isgmn.com<mailto:zfeinstein at isgmn.com>
>> (952) 277-0162
>> (612) 590-4813 (mobile)
>>
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