I'm learning R from scratch on my linux box, being deeply biased at work by those graphical programs, nice to look but often poor in content and almost generally limited, running under M$ Windows. I wonder if someone out there can suggest to an absolute beginner as I am where to find a collection of examples of R-code (or Splus, as I understand) to play with in order to learn R quicker. The collection should: 1) be in English, or French, or, of course, Italian, 2) be concentrated in one or at most a handful of sites, 3) contain examples of gradually increasing complexity. Such a collection could be extremely helpful to convince other people at work to move to R. Thanks & Ciao Vittorio
Look at the collection of books in the FAQ, Q2.7. For you, I would add Laboratorio di statistica con R by S. M. Iacus and G. Masarotto, McGraw-Hill, ISBN 88-386-6084-0 which my Italian student found very helpful. I don't think examples without explanations would be anything like as helpful. On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, v.demart at libero.it wrote:> I'm learning R from scratch on my linux box, being deeply biased at work > by those graphical programs, nice to look but often poor in content and > almost generally limited, running under M$ Windows. > > I wonder if someone out there can suggest to an absolute beginner as I > am where to find a collection of examples of R-code (or Splus, as I > understand) to play with in order to learn R quicker. > > The collection should: > 1) be in English, or French, or, of course, Italian, > 2) be concentrated in one or at most a handful of sites, > 3) contain examples of gradually increasing complexity. > > Such a collection could be extremely helpful to convince other people at > work to move to R. > > Thanks & Ciao > > Vittorio-- Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595
> I wonder if someone out there can suggest to an absolute > beginner as I am where to find a collection of examples of > R-code (or Splus, as I understand) to play with in order to > learn R quicker.How about the examples provided in the help to various functions? Let's see:> > The collection should: > 1) be in English, or French, or, of course, Italian,in English (check),> 2) be concentrated in one or at most a handful of sites,concentrated on your box (check),> 3) contain examples of gradually increasing complexity.ok, the examples are at varying complexity, not necessarily increasing. Yet many people gain a lot of insight when looking at the examples.
r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch wrote on 14/10/2003 09:20:34:> I'm learning R from scratch on my linux box, being deeply biased at > work by those graphical programs, nice to look but often poor in > content and almost generally limited, running under M$ Windows. > > I wonder if someone out there can suggest to an absolute beginner as > I am where to find a collection of examples of R-code (or Splus, as > I understand) to play with in order to learn R quicker. > > The collection should: > 1) be in English, or French, or, of course, Italian, > 2) be concentrated in one or at most a handful of sites, > 3) contain examples of gradually increasing complexity. >This site will not respond to all of the conditions, but I learned a lot from it. http://www.ku.edu/~pauljohn/R/Rtips.html Do not forget to explore all of the contributed docs you can find on CRAN (section Documentation, Contributed). HTH, Tobias
Look at the CRAN closest to you, I think was http://cran.at.r-project.org/, on the section Documentation/Contributed: - "Il linguaggio R: concetti introduttivi ed esempi" by Vito M. R. Muggeo (30 pages for beginners in Italian). - "Simple R" by John Verzani (data sets, various PDF, PS and a browsable HTML version are available at the Simple R homepage). After this lectures and exercises I think you should able to find alone more specific doc. Best! A.S. ---------------------------- Alessandro Semeria Models and Simulations Laboratory Montecatini Environmental Research Center (Edison Group), Via Ciro Menotti 48, 48023 Marina di Ravenna (RA), Italy Tel. +39 544 536811 Fax. +39 544 538663 E-mail: alessandro.semeria at cramont.it
I have found Paul Johnson's examples very useful: http://gifi.stat.ucla.edu/R/doc/statsRus.html Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 09:20:34 +0200 From: v.demart at libero.it <v.demart at libero.it> I'm learning R from scratch on my linux box, being deeply biased at work by those graphical programs, nice to look but often poor in content and almost generally limited, running under M$ Windows. I wonder if someone out there can suggest to an absolute beginner as I am where to find a collection of examples of R-code (or Splus, as I understand) to play with in order to learn R quicker. The collection should: 1) be in English, or French, or, of course, Italian, 2) be concentrated in one or at most a handful of sites, 3) contain examples of gradually increasing complexity. Such a collection could be extremely helpful to convince other people at work to move to R. Thanks & Ciao Vittorio _______________________________________________ No banners. No pop-ups. No kidding. Introducing My Way - http://www.myway.com