Berton Gunter
2006-Aug-01 21:47 UTC
[R] R Reference Card and other help (especially useful for Newbies)
Hi all:
Newbies (and others!) may find useful the R Reference Card made available by
Tom Short and Rpad at http://www.rpad.org/Rpad/Rpad-refcard.pdf or through
the "Contributed" link on CRAN (where some other reference cards are
also
linked). It categorizes and organizes a bunch of R's basic, most used
functions so that they can be easily found. For example, paste() is under
the "Strings" heading and expand.grid() is under "Data
Creation." For
newbies struggling to find the right R function as well as veterans who
can't quite remember the function name, it's very handy.
Also don't forget R's other Help facilties:
help.search("keyword or phrase") to search the **installed** man pages
RSiteSearch("keyword or phrase") to search the CRAN website via
Jonathan
Baron's search engine. This can also be done directly from CRAN by following
the "search" link there.
And, occasionally, find()/apropos() to search the ** attached** packages for
functions using regexp's.
Though R certainly can be intimidating, please **do** try these measures
first before posting questions to the list. And please **do** read the other
basic R reference materials. Better and faster answers can often be found
this way.
-- Bert Gunter
Genentech Non-Clinical Statistics
South San Francisco, CA
"The business of the statistician is to catalyze the scientific learning
process." - George E. P. Box
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Thanks for the resources, Berton. but unfortunately, that rpad link fails, and I still do not know where to get leaps or regsubsets functions. Sincerely, Boris. -------------- Hello, dear r team. Please help the newbie. My r is not finding leaps or regsubsets finctions. What should I do? Any name changes or library loading issues? ------------------------- Boris Garbuzov E-mail: bgarbuzo at sfu.ca ICQ: 146995300 MSN: garbuzov at hotmail.com Residence: 3007 Hamilton Hall, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby BC, V5A 1S6, Canada Telephone: 604-339-9964 (cell), 1.888.9.555.777 (toll free). ----- Original Message ----- From: "Berton Gunter" <gunter.berton at gene.com> To: <r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch> Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 2:47 PM Subject: [R] R Reference Card and other help (especially useful for Newbies)> > Hi all: > > > Newbies (and others!) may find useful the R Reference Card made available > by > > Tom Short and Rpad at http://www.rpad.org/Rpad/Rpad-refcard.pdf or > through > the "Contributed" link on CRAN (where some other reference cards are also > linked). It categorizes and organizes a bunch of R's basic, most used > functions so that they can be easily found. For example, paste() is under > the "Strings" heading and expand.grid() is under "Data Creation." For > newbies struggling to find the right R function as well as veterans who > can't quite remember the function name, it's very handy. > > Also don't forget R's other Help facilties: > > help.search("keyword or phrase") to search the **installed** man pages >
Boris: Thankyou for this. All the RPAD links now appear to be dead. However, the Reference Card is still available in the CONTRIBUTED link on CRAN, as I said. -- Bert Gunter Genentech Non-Clinical Statistics South San Francisco, CA> > Thanks for the resources, Berton. but unfortunately, that > rpad link fails, > and I still do not know where to get leaps or regsubsets functions. > Sincerely, Boris. > -------------- > Hello, dear r team. Please help the newbie. My r is not > finding leaps or > regsubsets finctions. What should I do? Any name changes or > library loading > issues? > ------------------------- > Boris Garbuzov > E-mail: bgarbuzo at sfu.ca > ICQ: 146995300 > MSN: garbuzov at hotmail.com > Residence: 3007 Hamilton Hall, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby > BC, V5A 1S6, > Canada