Hello right, I need a good book to help me with R. background, programming in matlab, perl, visualBasics. os windows and Linux. some good books to match the need would be appreciated. Thanks
Hi,> -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch > [mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Fred J. > Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 9:25 PM > To: r help > Subject: [R] book recommendation > > > Hello > right, I need a good book to help me with R. > background, programming in matlab, perl, visualBasics. > os windows and Linux. some good books to match the > need would be appreciated.Perhaps http://www.r-project.org/doc/bib/R-publications.html would be a good place to start looking? You also need to be more specific. It's good that you have quite a few programming skills but what is it you want with R? Do you want to write functions/packages and contribute to the R community (in which case Chambers's Programming with Data, and VR's S Programming would be good choices)? Or do you just want to "use" R as a statistical application? In which case there are several, VR's MASS4 for example. Kevin -------------------------------------------- Ko-Kang Kevin Wang, MSc(Hon) Statistics Workshops Co-ordinator Student Learning Centre University of Auckland New Zealand
I think you need to learn to use an FAQ: R has one covering books about R. The rest of your questions should be asked in a more appropriate place: the answers really depend on your level of knowledge. On Thu, 25 Mar 2004, Fred J. wrote:> right, I need a good book to help me with R. > background, programming in matlab, perl, visualBasics. > os windows and Linux. some good books to match the > need would be appreciated.-- 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