I have installed R on my machine. Can anyone now suggest to me the best book/e-book from where I can learn the R language most efficiently? Thanks in advance -- Siddhant Gupta III Year Department of Biotechnology IIT Roorkee India [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
On 30 Dec 2012, at 12:22 , Siddhant Gupta wrote:> I have installed R on my machine. > > Can anyone now suggest to me the best book/e-book from where I can learn > the R language most efficiently? > > Thanks in advance > > -- > Siddhant Gupta > III Year > Department of Biotechnology > IIT Roorkee > India > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.Yes, quite a lot! At: http://ftp.iitm.ac.in/cran/ Succes, and Best wishes, Franklin Bretschneider -- Dept Biologie Kruytgebouw W711 Padualaan 8 3584 CH Utrecht The Netherlands
Efficiency of learning materials depends on your background and learning style.
If you have any background at all in using software, the Introduction to R
document that is supplied with R is quite good. There is also a very useful
document on getting data in and out of R. There is a list of R books on the CRAN
website you can refer to.
Contributed packages (typically loaded using the "library" function)
have their own documentation, and in some cases have their own mailing lists. No
central book or document can be relied on to steer you to the perfect packages
for your needs, so learn to use the ? shortcut in R, Google, RSiteSearch(), or
the sos package to look for supporting functionality.
You can also learn quite a bit by lurking on this list and reading answers to
other people's questions.
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Siddhant Gupta <sid.2311.sg at gmail.com> wrote:
>I have installed R on my machine.
>
>Can anyone now suggest to me the best book/e-book from where I can
>learn
>the R language most efficiently?
>
>Thanks in advance
https://www.coursera.org/course/stats1 or https://www.coursera.org/course/compdata On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Siddhant Gupta <sid.2311.sg@gmail.com>wrote:> I have installed R on my machine. > > Can anyone now suggest to me the best book/e-book from where I can learn > the R language most efficiently? > > Thanks in advance > > -- > Siddhant Gupta > III Year > Department of Biotechnology > IIT Roorkee > India > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >[[alternative HTML version deleted]]
It is very dependent on your background and what you are planning to do. Because R is a tool that seems to be used by everyone from linguists to biochemists and everyone has their special interest it is often best to just google for what you are looking for. Here aresome sources that I find are helpful. R FOR SAS AND SPSS USERS www.et.bs.ehu.es/~etptupaf/pub/R/RforSAS&SPSSusers.pdf Tutorial http://www.unt.edu/rss/class/Jon/R_SC/ http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/google-r-style.html Short R reference sheet https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B8NgE2q8ITzTQnhPTFVjVXlOaHM/edit?pli=1 There are a number of short articles and even some books available on CRAN. Click on OTHER. The "Introduction to R" is extremely useful and should be read but I'd suggest that it is not the first document you read. It can be a bit overwhelming at first. Also to use R effiiently you need a good editor or IDE. http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Best-R-text-editors-td903450.html Just reading this list can be incredibly informative and when you are really stuck ask a question here but please read https://github.com/hadley/devtools/wiki/Reproducibility before asking it. This makes helping you much easier and you don't get nasty remarks thrown at you. Welcome to the R world John Kane Kingston ON Canada> -----Original Message----- > From: sid.2311.sg at gmail.com > Sent: Sun, 30 Dec 2012 17:07:47 +0545 > To: r-help at r-project.org > Subject: [R] Starting with R > > I have installed R on my machine. > > Can anyone now suggest to me the best book/e-book from where I can learn > the R language most efficiently? > > Thanks in advance > > -- > Siddhant Gupta > III Year > Department of Biotechnology > IIT Roorkee > India > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.____________________________________________________________ FREE 3D EARTH SCREENSAVER - Watch the Earth right on your desktop!