Hi There,

If you are starting with S or R, don't be worried.
If you just started (I suppose with R), don't be worried too.
Just enjoy and be happy :-)

bests

milton

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Peng Yu <pengyu.ut@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 9:07 AM, Giovanni Petris <GPetris@uark.edu> wrote:
> >
> > 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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> >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Giovanni Petris
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> > University of Arkansas
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> >
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