R help - Jan 2009 - Where to start with R?

Hello again,

I have tons of data files that I have to decide how/which subsets to
extract.  While researching data mining products I came across R.  As a
newbie, where do I start to start using this popular tool?

Any help is appreciated.

Thank you in advance.

Regards,

Subba Rao

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Any help is appreciated.<br>
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Thank you in advance.<br>
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Regards,<br>
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Subba Rao<br>
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On 17 January 2009 at 10:35, Subba Rao wrote:
| I have tons of data files that I have to decide how/which subsets to
| extract.  While researching data mining products I came across R.  As a
| newbie, where do I start to start using this popular tool?
| 
| Any help is appreciated.

How about reading the FAQ?  This stands for 'Frequently Asked
Questions'.

How about reading the manual?  In fact, there are a half dozen of them,
including an intro for beginners?

How about reading the files in the 'contributed documentation' section
on the
website? 

Dirk

-- 
Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions.

For a good, extemely basic, tutorial see 
http://www.math.ilstu.edu/dhkim/Rstuff/Rtutor.html

You might also want to have a look at 
http://zoonek2.free.fr/UNIX/48_R/all.html

If you are familiar with SPSS or SAS then Bob Muenchen's paper in PDF form 
http://oit.utk.edu/scc/RforSAS&SPSSusers.pdf  (or his new book) is very
helpful.

There are all kinds of good documentation available on the R site.  Try the
Books and Other links on the left side of the main R page.  In the Books page
there is a link to "other publications".

Under the R documentation page ( link Other) you may want to try the "other
documention" link.

I personally find that Introduction to R is very useful but it is better read
after you have read some of the really basic tutorial stuff.



--- On Sat, 1/17/09, Subba Rao <subbapi at tanucoo.com> wrote:
> From: Subba Rao <subbapi at tanucoo.com>
> Subject: [R] Where to start with R?
> To: r-help at r-project.org
> Received: Saturday, January 17, 2009, 10:35 AM
> Hello again,
> 
> I have tons of data files that I have to decide how/which
> subsets to
> extract.  While researching data mining products I came
> across R.  As a
> newbie, where do I start to start using this popular tool?
> 
> Any help is appreciated.
> 
> Thank you in advance.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Subba Rao


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