R help - May 2009 - [OT?]R Reference Manual review/recommend

Hello  all

I am looking to learn R and was thumbing through volume 1 of "R 
reference manual - Base Package".  I'm sorry if this is ludicrously 
silly to ask, but is this book worth the investment as a good way to 
learn how to use R?

AG

AG wrote:
> Hello  all
>
> I am looking to learn R and was thumbing through volume 1 of "R 
> reference manual - Base Package".  I'm sorry if this is
ludicrously
> silly to ask, but is this book worth the investment as a good way to 
> learn how to use R?
>
> AG
>
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> PLEASE do read the posting guide 
> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
Actually, I supect the help manual "An Introduction to R" could be
more
useful. You need at least a very basic understanding of how R operates 
in order to easily make sense of a reference manual such as the one you 
mentioned.
-- 
*Luc Villandr?*
/Biostatistician
McGill University Health Center -
Montreal Children's Hospital Research Institute/

I don't know the book but I doubt that it is a good way to learn R.  

I'd suggest having a look at some of the documentation available on the R
site.  Click on Other (in left column of page) have a look there  and then
select the " contributed documentation" link to get more
documentation.  Have a look at some of these offerings before buying any books.

The on-line "Introduction to R"  (Click on Manuals) is also very
useful although I found that it was more useful after I had a basic
understanding of R than as an intro for a complete novice who is not a
statistician.
Oh yes, it's also much easer to use in PDF form than in the HTML format. 

--- On Wed, 5/13/09, AG <computing.account at googlemail.com> wrote:
> From: AG <computing.account at googlemail.com>
> Subject: [R] [OT?]R Reference Manual review/recommend
> To: R-help at r-project.org
> Received: Wednesday, May 13, 2009, 4:55 PM
> Hello? all
> 
> I am looking to learn R and was thumbing through volume 1
> of "R reference manual - Base Package".? I'm sorry if
> this is ludicrously silly to ask, but is this book worth the
> investment as a good way to learn how to use R?
> 
> AG
> 
> ______________________________________________
> 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.
> 

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