[R-sig-eco] Book Suggestions
Wayne Richter
wxrichte at gw.dec.state.ny.us
Wed May 12 22:41:55 CEST 2010
I really like R for SAS and SPSS Users by Robert Muenchen. It's really good for learning the basics and mind set of R and might be especially useful for those who are familiar with SAS or SPSS, as I was in graduate school. It's a bit light on statistics coverage, though.
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From: Kyle Hernandez <kmhernan at purdue.edu>
To: <r-sig-ecology at r-project.org>
Date: 5/11/2010 12:46 PM
Subject: [R-sig-eco] Book Suggestions
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
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Kyle Hernandez
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Biological Sciences
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN 47907
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