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.

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On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 9:30 AM, Jeff Laux <jefflaux@gmail.com> 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<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
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