Hello, I need to learn to use r-software for my PhD research project involving long timelines of radon radiation variations. I am using windows. I am currently discouraged by the use of r. I cannot figure out how to use it despite extensive searches. Can anyone help me with getting started? How can import a txt file with series of numbers from the RAD7 machine? How can I open up and set directories with the imported file or to start a new r session? Thank you so much if you can help. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Getting-started-help-tp15560581p15560581.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
I have no idea what "numbers form the RAD7 machine" look like, but there is a whole section on importing data in the user manual. 'read.table' is a start. To change directories, use 'setwd'. To start a new R session on Windows, just setup a shortcut to RGUI.exe. Most of this is covered in the documentation that comes with R. On 2/19/08, Rthoughts <seb.brockel at northampton.ac.uk> wrote:> > Hello, I need to learn to use r-software for my PhD research project > involving long timelines of radon radiation variations. > > I am using windows. > > I am currently discouraged by the use of r. I cannot figure out how to use > it despite extensive searches. Can anyone help me with getting started? How > can import a txt file with series of numbers from the RAD7 machine? How can > I open up and set directories with the imported file or to start a new r > session? > > Thank you so much if you can help. > -- > View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Getting-started-help-tp15560581p15560581.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at 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. >-- Jim Holtman Cincinnati, OH +1 513 646 9390 What is the problem you are trying to solve?
If someone told you to learn R, then there must a local R guru in your neighbourhood. Therefore I would suggest that you consult this person first. Reading an introduction into R will help you too (e.g. Peter Dalgaard. Introductory Statistics with R. Springer, 2002. ISBN 0-387-95475-9) HTH, Thierry ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- ir. Thierry Onkelinx Instituut voor natuur- en bosonderzoek / Research Institute for Nature and Forest Cel biometrie, methodologie en kwaliteitszorg / Section biometrics, methodology and quality assurance Gaverstraat 4 9500 Geraardsbergen Belgium tel. + 32 54/436 185 Thierry.Onkelinx op inbo.be www.inbo.be Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say. ~William W. Watt A statistical analysis, properly conducted, is a delicate dissection of uncertainties, a surgery of suppositions. ~M.J.Moroney -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: r-help-bounces op r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces op r-project.org] Namens Rthoughts Verzonden: dinsdag 19 februari 2008 13:54 Aan: r-help op r-project.org Onderwerp: [R] Getting started help Hello, I need to learn to use r-software for my PhD research project involving long timelines of radon radiation variations. I am using windows. I am currently discouraged by the use of r. I cannot figure out how to use it despite extensive searches. Can anyone help me with getting started? How can import a txt file with series of numbers from the RAD7 machine? How can I open up and set directories with the imported file or to start a new r session? Thank you so much if you can help. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Getting-started-help-tp15560581p15560581.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-help op 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.
Hi Rthoughts,>> I am currently discouraged by the use of r. I cannot figure out how to >> use it despite >> extensive searches. Can anyone help me with getting started? How can >> import >> a txt file with series...There are piles of documents that you could (and should) read. I am surprised that you haven't found them in your extensive searches. To set your thoughts free, go here: http://www.r-project.org/ http://cran.r-project.org/manuals.html ## read the first one, and whatever else you need Then click on CRAN, and choose a mirror site (nearby), say: http://cran.za.r-project.org/ Then go: http://cran.za.r-project.org/other-docs.html and start at the top. HTH, Mark. PS: It might help you in your future enquiries if you used a real name, and if you called R R rather than r (since your keyboard clearly doesn't have a broken R ;). Rthoughts wrote:> > Hello, I need to learn to use r-software for my PhD research project > involving long timelines of radon radiation variations. > > I am using windows. > > I am currently discouraged by the use of r. I cannot figure out how to use > it despite extensive searches. Can anyone help me with getting started? > How can import a txt file with series of numbers from the RAD7 machine? > How can I open up and set directories with the imported file or to start a > new r session? > > Thank you so much if you can help. >-- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Getting-started-help-tp15560581p15561419.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.