OK I have been trying to learn how to use this program and I cannot even import any data into it. I have downloaded all the manuals but they do not seem to help. Is there a book on R for dummies???
> -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch > [mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Marisa Ramos > Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 8:49 AM > To: R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch > Subject: [R] Basic Help > > > OK I have been trying to learn how to use this program and I > cannot even > import any data into it. I have downloaded all the manuals > but they do not > seem to help. Is there a book on R for dummies???Chapter 7 in "An Introduction to R" explains how to read the data in, it should be pretty good....if you're still unsure, look at the documentation for read.table() and scan(). Chapter 2 of my incomplete book, http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~kwan022/pub/R/RBook/, has a short explanation about data structure in R. The chapter has sort of been complete (it's in the draft version).... HTH, Kevin Wang -------------------------------------------- Ko-Kang Kevin Wang, MSc(Hon) Statistics Workshops Co-ordinator Student Learning Centre University of Auckland New Zealand
Other than the official "An Introduction to R" manual, there are a few intro-level documentations on CRAN. Do you mean to say that all of them are too advanced for you? Andy> From: Marisa Ramos > > OK I have been trying to learn how to use this program and I > cannot even > import any data into it. I have downloaded all the manuals > but they do not > seem to help. Is there a book on R for dummies??? > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > >------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Notice: This e-mail message, together with any attachments,...{{dropped}}
Have you looked at the manual : " R Data Import /Export" that comes
with
R? If you are using Windows platform Go to Help -->Manuals --> R Data
Import/ Export.
Hope that helps.
Partha
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OK I have been trying to learn how to use this program and I cannot even
import any data into it. I have downloaded all the manuals but they do
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seem to help. Is there a book on R for dummies???
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> OK I have been trying to learn how to use this program and I cannot even > import any data into it. I have downloaded all the manuals but they do > not > seem to help. Is there a book on R for dummies???I don't know about dummies, but Peter Dalgaard's book, "Introductory Statistics with R" is an intro that is both gentle and thorough. Cheers Jason
Marisa,
If the examples in R Data Import/Export can't help you you'll have to be
way way way more specific.
http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-data.pdf
I'm assuming you are using windows. Here's an example. Try saving the
attached file to c:\temp and copying the commands below into R. This
file junk.csv is a text file where each value is seperated by a comma.
You can open it in Excel or with a text editor like notepad. Try looking
at it with both. In windows it's often easiest to get you data from
excel to R by saving it as a comma seperated file (.csv) from excel.
Good luck, Andy
#### Start copy and paste
# Set the working directory so R knows where your files are
setwd("c:/temp")
# Read the data (see read.csv for comma seperated files too)
some.data <- read.table(file = "junk.csv", header = T, sep =
",")
# Now try some things with this data
some.data
summary(some.data)
attach(some.data)
a.model <- lm(Y ~ X1 + X2)
detach(some.data)
summary(a.model)
# now look at the help pages for these commands
?read.table
?setwd
?lm
?summary
?attach
?detach
#### End copy and paste
Here's a copy of the attached file junk.csv which probably won't make it
to the R-Help list.
ID,Y,X1,X2,X3
1,2,2,75,645
2,5,6,35,8
3,73,2,754,323
4,8,7,26,76
5,3,21,6,25
I've tried to write something along these lines called "Getting Started
in
R". You can download it from:
http://www.sbtc.ltd.uk/freenotes.html
Feedback welcome!
Saghir
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From: Marisa Ramos [mailto:miramos@ucdavis.edu]
Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 20:49
To: R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: [R] Basic Help
OK I have been trying to learn how to use this program and I cannot even
import any data into it. I have downloaded all the manuals but they do not
seem to help. Is there a book on R for dummies???
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