[R-sig-eco] Book Suggestions

Ian Ramjohn iramjohn at gmail.com
Wed May 12 20:55:57 CEST 2010


Although it's fairly basic, I liked Michael Crawley's Statistics: An
Introduction Using R to be quite readable.

On May 11, 2010, at 11:45 AM, Kyle Hernandez <kmhernan at purdue.edu>
wrote:

> Hello,
>    My name is Kyle Hernandez and I'm a Ph.D. candidate at Purdue
> University.  I am an R-user and have recently just started the
> Purdue R-users Group.  However, I am really the only one in my area
> (ecology/evolution/behavior) that uses R (and has an advanced
> education in statistics). A group of fellow students really want to
> get into R (especially those doing QTL/animal model things) and
> requested to have a readings course this summer.  I will be there to
> help them understand the syntax (and the math), but I don't know of
> any good 'general' R books.  I have used Pinheiro and Bates Mixed-
> Effect Models in S and S-PLUS for personal reasons, but it really
> only focuses on the nlme package.  If anyone has a suggestion for a
> book that would go through data I/O, data management (matrices,
> etc.), and then goes into univariate and multivariate statistics
> (possibly even genomics) then please let me know.  I know of
> statmethods as a great resource for statistics, and I'm sure there
> are several other resources for specifics (i.e., I use the ggplot2
> online websource almost daily).  I doubt such a book exists, but
> maybe through your suggestions I can find one book and several
> online resources to help these students learn R.  I really
> appreciate your help!
>
> Kyle
>
> --
> Kyle Hernandez
> Ph.D. Candidate
> Department of Biological Sciences
> Purdue University
> West Lafayette, IN 47907
>
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