R help - Oct 2014 - Best Beginner Books?

Hey Folks,
    I?m hoping to get a general consenus on a good book for someone with no
prior experience in R that is new to data science and statistical analysis. So
far, I?ve been recommended to read ?Software For Data Analysis: Programming With
R (Statistics And Computing)" by John Chambers. I?ve seen some other books
mentioned here and there in the mailings, but I can?t recall their names. Does
anyone have any though on this book, or others?

Best Regards,
	Jason Eyerly

I would recommend these for the absolute beginner with R:

"A Beginner's Guide to R" by Zuur
and
"Data Manipulation with R" by Spector

I have not seen this, but if their pattern holds, this one coming out
from Highland Statistics will also probably be useful for a newcomer:

A Beginner's Guide to Data Exploration and Visualization with R
Ieno EN, Zuur AF
Paperback available from November 2014
Harcover available from January 2015

--Chris Ryan

On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 12:48 AM, Jason Eyerly <teamtraders3564 at
gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey Folks,
>     I?m hoping to get a general consenus on a good book for someone with no
prior experience in R that is new to data science and statistical analysis. So
far, I?ve been recommended to read ?Software For Data Analysis: Programming With
R (Statistics And Computing)" by John Chambers. I?ve seen some other books
mentioned here and there in the mailings, but I can?t recall their names. Does
anyone have any though on this book, or others?
>
> Best Regards,
>         Jason Eyerly
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On 10/01/2014 05:48 PM, Jason Eyerly wrote:
> Hey Folks, I?m hoping to get a general consenus on a good book for
> someone with no prior experience in R that is new to data science and
> statistical analysis. So far, I?ve been recommended to read ?Software
> For Data Analysis: Programming With R (Statistics And Computing)" by
> John Chambers. I?ve seen some other books mentioned here and there in
> the mailings, but I can?t recall their names. Does anyone have any
> though on this book, or others?
There is always "R for Dummies"... (not entirely kidding, actually a 
pretty gentle intro to R via RStudio)