To echo what was just posted, the R Inferno document is excellent and I think that, even though it may not be exactly what you are looking for to help your student, that both you and your student will learn a great deal about R (and S) as a programming environment by working through the examples. PGY --- Dr. Paula Grafton Young Associate Professor of Mathematics Chair, Curriculum Committee, 2011 - 2013 Chair, Strategic Planning Steering Committee, 2012 - 2013 paula.young@salem.edu 336.721.2747 (O) 336.721.2653 (F) On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 9:30 AM, Jeff Laux wrote: > Are you familiar with R Inferno? This is a programming-oriented tutorial > for R by the statistician Patric Burns. He has generously placed it as a > pdf online for free (http://www.burns-stat.com/**pages/Tutor/R_inferno.pdf); > you could also purchase a copy. Of course this will be more than just a > few practice exercises (a lot more, and actually, I'm not sure there are > any exercises but you can certainly follow along with the examples). > Nonetheless, it may still be right up your alley. There are other > resources for learning the programming side of R, but only a few that are > as good, and none other free, so far as I know. If this is really > different from what you're looking for, you may want to reply with more > detail. > > Hope that helps. -Jeff > > > > On 4/20/2012 7:41 AM, cgenolin wrote: > >> >> >> 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]] >> >> ______________________________**_________________ >> R-sig-teaching@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/**listinfo/r-sig-teaching >> >> ----- >> No virus found in this message. >> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >> Version: 2012.0.1913 / Virus Database: 2411/4948 - Release Date: 04/20/12 >> >> >> > ______________________________**_________________ > R-sig-teaching@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/**listinfo/r-sig-teaching > [[alternative HTML version deleted]]