I am new to R and am looking for a book that can help in learning to program in R. I have looked at the R website suggested books but I am still not sure which book best suite my needs. I am interesting in programming, data manipulation not statistics. Any suggestions? Raphael
I recently invested in two books: Venables and Ripley "Modern Applied Statistics in S", and Everitt and Rabe Heskith's "Analyzing Medical Data in S-Plus" I think either one is a good self-teaching tool. On 8/24/06, Raphael Fraser <raphael.fraser at gmail.com> wrote:> I am new to R and am looking for a book that can help in learning to > program in R. I have looked at the R website suggested books but I am > still not sure which book best suite my needs. I am interesting in > programming, data manipulation not statistics. Any suggestions? > > Raphael > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch 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. >-- I can answer any question. "I don't know" is an answer. "I don't know yet" is a better answer.
--- Raphael Fraser <raphael.fraser at gmail.com> wrote:> I am new to R and am looking for a book that can > help in learning to > program in R. I have looked at the R website > suggested books but I am > still not sure which book best suite my needs. I am > interesting in > programming, data manipulation not statistics. Any > suggestions? > > RaphaelI have not been able to get my hands on much since someone has raided the local library and grabbed all the R books on long-term loan but I have found that there is some very useful material on the CRAN site under "Other" I have found An Introduction to S and the Hmisc and Design Libraries? by Carlos Alzola and Frank E. Harrell very useful as is Simple R? by John Verzani. There are also some other intro tutorials on line that might be helpful. One I found useful is http://www.math.ilstu.edu/dhkim/Rstuff/Rtutor.html I just recently got my hands on John Fox's book "An R and S-Plus Companion to Applied Regression" and it has some very useful discussions of data handling. Ch.2 and Ch.7 (on graphs) is useful.
Hi Raphael: You mention being interested in "programming", which covers many various topics itself. I wholeheartedly recommend: S Programming (2000) by Venables and Ripley . Don't let the date of the book nor the fact that R is not mentioned in the title dissuade you. Much like MASS by Venables and Ripley, I find there is always something useful to learn (or re-learn), particularly if you work through the exercises. The authors have excellent complementary materials to both books as well at the books' web sites: see the links for [5] and [4] at http://www.r-project.org/doc/bib/R-books.html. Hope that helps, Bill Centocor, Inc. Nonclinical Statistics> -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch > [mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch]On Behalf Of Raphael Fraser > Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 8:09 AM > To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch > Subject: [R] Intro to Programming R Book > > > I am new to R and am looking for a book that can help in learning to > program in R. I have looked at the R website suggested books but I am > still not sure which book best suite my needs. I am interesting in > programming, data manipulation not statistics. Any suggestions? > > Raphael > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch 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. >
There is some online material at: http://zoonek2.free.fr/UNIX/48_R/all.html http://pj.freefaculty.org/R/statsRus.html On 8/24/06, Raphael Fraser <raphael.fraser at gmail.com> wrote:> I am new to R and am looking for a book that can help in learning to > program in R. I have looked at the R website suggested books but I am > still not sure which book best suite my needs. I am interesting in > programming, data manipulation not statistics. Any suggestions?
Raphael Fraser wrote:> I am new to R and am looking for a book that can help in learning to > program in R. I have looked at the R website suggested books but I am > still not sure which book best suite my needs. I am interesting in > programming, data manipulation not statistics. Any suggestions? > > Raphael > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch 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."S Programming" by Venables and Ripley (Springer) seems the only(?) one around targeting the language, not it's applications. luckily, it's very good. for the rest (things specific to R, e.g. package development, namespaces etc.) I think one can only resort to the R manuals .
S Poetry may be of use to you. Some things are now out-of-date and some things are wrong for R, but mostly it's right. And the price is right. Patrick Burns patrick at burns-stat.com +44 (0)20 8525 0696 http://www.burns-stat.com (home of S Poetry and "A Guide for the Unwilling S User") Raphael Fraser wrote:>I am new to R and am looking for a book that can help in learning to >program in R. I have looked at the R website suggested books but I am >still not sure which book best suite my needs. I am interesting in >programming, data manipulation not statistics. Any suggestions? > >Raphael > >______________________________________________ >R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch 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. > > > >