[R-sig-teaching] Looking for an R Mentor

[Phill Clarke]

Thank you for the responses, and apologies for posting to the wrong
list. I will reply individualy to those who have offered assistance.

Regards,
Phill


On 7 January 2013 23:04, James Howard <jh at jameshoward.us> wrote:
> Looks like fun, I'm in!  But stackoverflow.com is probably a better place to
> pose random questions.
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> On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 5:03 PM, Phill Clarke <phillclarke at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> My first post to the list, and I hope I am not asking for something too
>> cheeky!
>>
>> I am reasonably new to R, although do have some basic programming
>> experience from years past.
>>
>> Currently I am using R, as a general scripting language to download
>> CSVs, extract data from databases and generally manipulate said data.
>> I chose R, as moving forward, I would like to perform various
>> statistical anlyses on this data.
>>
>> At the moment, while I am making some good progress, being new to the
>> language I'm really looking for some type of mentor who can review my
>> code and make improvement suggestions. I'm sure I am doing some things
>> the long way around! I'm hoping my questions won't too much along the
>> lines of "How do I do this?" but more like "Am I doing this the best
>> way?" I know there are a lot of forums and websites where I could just
>> post questions, but I was aiming for more one to one interaction via
>> email.
>>
>> Perhaps the response will be that I should just go and pay for some
>> training. Fair enough too I suppose. However, my intention is to open
>> source the output of my efforts, so I was hoping someone in the
>> community would be kind enough on the input side to provide me with
>> guidance under a similar ethos.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Phill
>>
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> James Howard