Hi Kyle,

There are good tutorials at the CRAN website:

http://cran.r-project.org/other-docs.html

I like in particular *“An Introduction to R: Software for Statistical
Modelling & Computing” * by Petra Kuhnert and Bill Venables.

Julian

On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 4:45 PM, Kyle Hernandez <kmhernan@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
>
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> Ph.D. Candidate
> Department of Biological Sciences
> Purdue University
> West Lafayette, IN 47907
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