[R-sig-teaching] R exercices

[Jeff Laux]

Matloff's book is very good, but  a critical shortcoming is that it does 
not include exercises, so it may not meet the stated requirements.


On 8/20/2012 12:30 PM, Robert Baer wrote:
> You could have him work through Norman Matloff's book, "The Art of R 
> Programming" which covers the things you list.
>
> Rob
>
>
> On 8/18/2012 3:47 PM, nf grinberg wrote:
>> cgenolin <cgenolin <at> u-paris10.fr> writes:
>>
>>>
>>> Hi the list,
>>>
>>> I am looking for some exercices for a PhD student
>>> that start to learn R. He already "read" some tutorial, but now he 
>>> needs
>>> some practice.
>>>
>>> He does *not* need to learn any statistical tools ; he
>>> just needs to work on programmation concept. So I am looking for some
>>> exercice sheet that will, for example, focus on :
>>>
>>>   - structuring the
>>> data (data.frame / list / matrix / ...)
>>>
>>>   - using controle syntax (for
>>> / if / while / function)
>>>
>>>   - reading data
>>>
>>>   - ...
>>>
>>> Any link for this
>>> kind of material?
>>>
>>> Sincerely
>>>
>>> Christophe
>>>
>>>     [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
>>>
>>>
>> Hi Christophe,
>>
>> The following set of exercises (by Robin Reed and myself) is aimed at 
>> people
>> wishing to learn R in a non-statistical context (there are exercises 
>> involving
>> matrices (and arrays) and vectors and writing functions).
>> Maybe your student might find them useful.
>> http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/statistics/staff/academic-
>> research/reed/rexercises.pdf (accessible from here
>> http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/statistics/staff/academic-research/reed 
>> )
>>
>> Best,
>> Nastasiya
>>
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