[R-sig-eco] Book Suggestions

[Alexander Shenkin]

There have been some discussions about good books for teaching R on the
main R-help list - you could search there for some nice lists and ideas
as well.

allie

On 5/11/2010 11:45 AM, Kyle Hernandez 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
> 
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Alexander Shenkin
PhD Candidate
School of Natural Resources and Environment
University of Florida

http://snre.ufl.edu/people/students.asp