Hello, What is the best material(book, pdfs, ...) for programmers, who have extensive experience in other programming languages, to learn R programming? I think there are many materials on how to use R for specific statistical jobs, but I haven't seen any material particularly designed for R programming. Thanks.
someone mentioned the RCurl package recently On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 9:12 AM, June Kim <juneaftn@gmail.com> wrote:> Hello, > > What is the best material(book, pdfs, ...) for programmers, who have > extensive experience in other programming languages, to learn R > programming? I think there are many materials on how to use R for > specific statistical jobs, but I haven't seen any material > particularly designed for R programming. > > Thanks. > > ______________________________________________ > 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. >-- Regards, Ajay Ohri http://tinyurl.com/liajayohri [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
2008/9/28 June Kim <juneaftn at gmail.com>:> Hello, > > What is the best material(book, pdfs, ...) for programmers, who have > extensive experience in other programming languages, to learn R > programming? I think there are many materials on how to use R for > specific statistical jobs, but I haven't seen any material > particularly designed for R programming.That's probably because most people who use R are using it for its statistical specificity, and if they wanted to write a web server or a chess game or an image editor they'd do it another language! Have you really gone through all the documentation resources listed under the 'Documentation' section sidemenu from www.r-project.org? Try the list of 'other docs' on CRAN: http://cran.r-project.org/other-docs.html I think possibly the most stats-free reference is Chambers' "Programming with Data". Get a copy of that... Barry