Hi there, I'm looking for advice on a R book that's for somewhat advanced user. I've been using R for a while and can do the basic analysis with no problem. My problem is that for many already existing commands, such as gsub, textconnection, list, etc, I don't use them, simply because I don't know their existence! Can someone recommend a good book that I can refer to and can learn R systematically? Thanks a lot! Hua
You might find Robert Gentleman's recent book useful for exposure on many of the more advanced features of R. http://www.bioconductor.org/pub/RBioinf/ -Christos> -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org > [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Hua Li > Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 3:13 PM > To: R-help > Subject: [R] R book needed > > Hi there, > > I'm looking for advice on a R book that's for somewhat advanced user. > > I've been using R for a while and can do the basic analysis > with no problem. My problem is that for many already existing > commands, such as gsub, textconnection, list, etc, I don't > use them, simply because I don't know their existence! Can > someone recommend a good book that I can refer to and can > learn R systematically? > > Thanks a lot! > > Hua > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > >
It would take the size of several books to systematically list everything in R so no book could contain that. If you read one page of the R reference manual per day and when you are finished with that then read the entire reference manual of one contributed package each week then you should be finished in under 25 years. Of course by that time there may be more packages than present so perhaps 100 years might do it. On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 3:13 PM, Hua Li <hualihua at yahoo.com> wrote:> Hi there, > > I'm looking for advice on a R book that's for somewhat advanced user. > > I've been using R for a while and can do the basic analysis with no problem. My problem is that for many already existing commands, such as gsub, textconnection, list, etc, I don't use them, simply because I don't know their existence! Can someone recommend a good book that I can refer to and can learn R systematically? > > Thanks a lot! > > Hua > > ______________________________________________ > 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. >