Dear R users,
I'm a new user of R : in fact , i hadn't used R yet. To say the
truth , I'm used to with graphical interface of windows environment. so R
console reminds me Linux , of which i am afraid of much more. Whatever , i
like to learn about the 7 topics below of "R" or "S+4.5" [is
there any
other similar program like these ?]. Thats why i need some documentation
[preferably at PDF file formate]. Can you please provide me web link
addresses where can i find documentation about the topics below :
1. running R or S-plus in windows environment
2. Vectors and Matrices
3. Reading and Sorting data and listing data
4. Plotting and graphics
5. Functions
6. Programming for Statistical computation
7. Estimation of the parameters of different models using
Newton-Raphson method
it would be a great help if i can get effective and nicely written
tutorials to learn it quickly. I also need to know if i need any packages
to learn about the topics above which is not included at R-1.3.0 or S+4.5
by default. I look forward to you for your valuable suggestions about
"R"
or "S+" about any thing that you want to suggest.
NB: where should i mail : R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch or
at r-help at lists.R-project.org to reach R-help ? since i'm not sure about
it : i mail at both addresses. Forgive me if it is cross-posted.
Best regards,
_______________________
Mohammad Ehsanul karim
Email : isrtdu at yahoo.com
Voice : 880 - 02 - 9870390
[7-10 PM at GMT +06:00 ]
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1. Are you talking about installing or actually running/using R? If you want to
learn how to install it, you can find it in the second volumn of R news, the
article written by Prof. Brian Ripley. The R-news can be downloaded from CRAN
(http://cran.r-project.org/doc/Rnews/Rnews_2001-2.pdf). If you want to know how
to use it, then the syntax/usage is not very different (in fact almost the same)
as in every platform. Take a look at An Introduction to R
(http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-intro.pdf).
2. Read An Introduction to R - see above
3. Again, see above. But basically if you have a dataset which has many columns
(i.e. in tabular form), and it is saved as a text file (which can be done using
Save As... in any spreadsheet program), and you want to load into R, you can do
something like:
myData <- read.table( file.choose(), header = T )
where on the press of ENTER key, a chooser will pop up and you can find your
file and select it and click OK. Your dataset is now load into R, under the
name myData. You will also want:
attach( myData )
so that you can use the column names directly in R.
If you have a vector of data (e.g. 100 numbers), then you can/should use scan().
So:
myVector <- scan( file.choose() )
and follow the similar procedure. You do not need to attach it as it is a
single vector which you will be using myVector to manipulate it within the R
session.
There are ways to specify the file's path, but this is a bit more
complicated for beginner and file.choose() will do the job anyways.
4. Again check An Introduction to R first. Or "Using R for Data Analysis
and Graphics" by John Maindonald
(http://cran.r-project.org/doc/contrib/usingR.pdf). I'm currently writting
some PowerPoint slides on this too.
5. An Introduction to R has some explanations on this. Again, I'm currently
writting some PowerPoint slides on this too.
6. What kind of computation?
7. I'm not sure about this one.
Do check out CRAN's contributed manuals too. There are some excellent
guides, such as ``R for Beginners / R pour les debutants'' by Emmanuel
Paradis (http://cran.r-project.org/doc/contrib/Rdebuts_en.pdf)... and others.
John Verzani posted up his site a few days ago which also has lots of excellent
tutorials and examples (http://www.math.csi.cuny.edu/Statistics/R/simpleR).
Hope this helps,
Ko-Kang Wang
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Ko-Kang Kevin Wang
Statistical Analysis Division Leader
Software Developers' Klub (SDK)
University of Auckland
New Zealand
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Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 5:59 AM
To: R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch; r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: [R] Novice User Manual
Dear R users,
I'm a new user of R : in fact , i hadn't used R yet. To say the
truth , I'm used to with graphical interface of windows environment. so R
console reminds me Linux , of which i am afraid of much more. Whatever , i
like to learn about the 7 topics below of "R" or "S+4.5" [is
there any
other similar program like these ?]. Thats why i need some documentation
[preferably at PDF file formate]. Can you please provide me web link
addresses where can i find documentation about the topics below :
1. running R or S-plus in windows environment
2. Vectors and Matrices
3. Reading and Sorting data and listing data
4. Plotting and graphics
5. Functions
6. Programming for Statistical computation
7. Estimation of the parameters of different models using
Newton-Raphson method
it would be a great help if i can get effective and nicely written
tutorials to learn it quickly. I also need to know if i need any packages
to learn about the topics above which is not included at R-1.3.0 or S+4.5
by default. I look forward to you for your valuable suggestions about
"R"
or "S+" about any thing that you want to suggest.
NB: where should i mail : R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch or
at r-help at lists.R-project.org to reach R-help ? since i'm not sure about
it : i mail at both addresses. Forgive me if it is cross-posted.
Best regards,
_______________________
Mohammad Ehsanul karim
Email : isrtdu at yahoo.com
Voice : 880 - 02 - 9870390
[7-10 PM at GMT +06:00 ]
_______________________
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Hi! There is an easy answer: Look at the documentation section at http://www.r-project.org and try "An Introduction to R" This will answer most of your questions. Cheers, Winfried On 30-Aug-01 wildscop wrote:> Dear R users, > > I'm a new user of R : in fact , i hadn't used R yet. To say the > truth , I'm used to with graphical interface of windows environment. so R > console reminds me Linux , of which i am afraid of much more. Whatever , i > like to learn about the 7 topics below of "R" or "S+4.5" [is there any > other similar program like these ?]. Thats why i need some documentation > [preferably at PDF file formate]. Can you please provide me web link > addresses where can i find documentation about the topics below : > 1. running R or S-plus in windows environment > 2. Vectors and Matrices > 3. Reading and Sorting data and listing data > 4. Plotting and graphics > 5. Functions > 6. Programming for Statistical computation > 7. Estimation of the parameters of different models using > Newton-Raphson method > it would be a great help if i can get effective and nicely written > tutorials to learn it quickly. I also need to know if i need any packages > to learn about the topics above which is not included at R-1.3.0 or S+4.5 > by default. I look forward to you for your valuable suggestions about "R" > or "S+" about any thing that you want to suggest. > > NB: where should i mail : R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch or > at r-help at lists.R-project.org to reach R-help ? since i'm not sure about > it : i mail at both addresses. Forgive me if it is cross-posted. > > > Best regards, > > > _______________________ > Mohammad Ehsanul karim > Email : isrtdu at yahoo.com > Voice : 880 - 02 - 9870390 > [7-10 PM at GMT +06:00 ] > _______________________ > > -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-. > - > r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html > Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" > (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch > _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._. > _---------------------------------- E-Mail: Winfried Theis <theis at statistik.uni-dortmund.de> Date: 31-Aug-01 Time: 13:19:30 Dipl.-Math. Winfried Theis, Fachbereich Statistik, Graduiertenkolleg "Angewandte Statistik" Universität Dortmund, 44221 Dortmund Tel.: +49-231-755-5903 FAX: +49-231-755-4387 ---------------------------------- -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
Look at R manuals in pdf format included with the distribution for an initiation. CRAN has also some contributed introduction to R in different languages (http://cran.r-project.org, then -> Documentation -> Manuals and -> Documentation -> Contributed). Philippe Grosjean>Dear R users,> I'm a new user of R : in fact , i hadn't used R yet. To say the >truth , I'm used to with graphical interface of windows environment. so R >console reminds me Linux , of which i am afraid of much more. Whatever , i >like to learn about the 7 topics below of "R" or "S+4.5" [is there any >other similar program like these ?]. Thats why i need some documentation >[preferably at PDF file formate]. Can you please provide me web link >addresses where can i find documentation about the topics below : > 1. running R or S-plus in windows environment > 2. Vectors and Matrices > 3. Reading and Sorting data and listing data > 4. Plotting and graphics > 5. Functions > 6. Programming for Statistical computation > 7. Estimation of the parameters of different models using >Newton-Raphson method > it would be a great help if i can get effective and nicely written >tutorials to learn it quickly. I also need to know if i need any packages >to learn about the topics above which is not included at R-1.3.0 or S+4.5 >by default. I look forward to you for your valuable suggestions about "R" >or "S+" about any thing that you want to suggest.>NB: where should i mail : R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch or >at r-help at lists.R-project.org to reach R-help ? since i'm not sure about >it : i mail at both addresses. Forgive me if it is cross-posted.>Best regards,>_______________________ >Mohammad Ehsanul karim >Email : isrtdu at yahoo.com >Voice : 880 - 02 - 9870390 >[7-10 PM at GMT +06:00 ] >_______________________-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._