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any useful books for learning the R statistical software? are they pricey? and if the books recommended focus on S, how compatible will they be for someone learning R? thank you in advance for your help. P.S. specialized survey statistical procedures? Is R good at that? [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

I am new to using R and would appreciate some advice on which books to start with to get up to speed on using R. My Background: 1-C# programmer. 2-Programmed directly using IMSL (Now Visual Numerics). 3- Used in past SPSS and Statistica. I put together a list but would like to pick the "best of" and avoid redundancy. Any suggestions on these books would be helpful (i.e. too much

Will the real book "S Programming" please stand up. As I searched for this book both on AMAZON.COM and AMAZON.CO.UK, I found two different versions. On AMAZON.COM my search reveals S Programming (Statistics and Computing) by Brian D. Ripley, William N. Venables. Our Price: $59.95. Availability: Usually ships within 24 hours. Hardcover - 264 pages 1st edition (May 15, 2000) Springer

Most books on R I come across describe running statistical procedures in R. Any suggestions on a good book that teaches *programming* in R? Thanks, Anjan -- ============================= anjan purkayastha, phd bioinformatics analyst whitehead institute for biomedical research nine cambridge center cambridge, ma 02142 purkayas [at] wi [dot] mit [dot] edu 703.740.6939 [[alternative HTML version

Hi R fans, I was trying to write some code in R when I realized that I was just writing a FORTRAN 77 style program in the R syntax, and hence coming nowhere near tapping the potential of R. I'm wondering what is a good reference that would help me get up to speed in programming in R (i.e., using these classes, methods, objects, accessor functions, and many other things I don't

Hi, Can anyone help to write a more elegant version of my code? I am sure this can be put into a loop but I am having trouble creating the objects b1,b2,b3,...,etc. b1 <- rigamma(50,1,1) theta1 <- rgamma(50,0.5,(1/b1)) sim1 <- rpois(50,theta1) b2 <- rigamma(50,1,1) theta2 <- rgamma(50,0.5,(1/b2)) sim2 <- rpois(50,theta2) b3 <- rigamma(50,1,1) theta3 <-

Hi, I have been using R for a few months now and I am confident that the language has everything I will need to complete my PhD. I can create functions, script files and packages, but I would like to write my programs more efficiently (maybe using OO). Can anyone recommend a good book on the "art" of good R programming? Kind Regards, Sam.

type count 0 20 1 15 0 10 1 35 0 28 I would like to create two vectors from the data above. For example, type1=c(15, 35) and type0 = c(20, 10, 28). Can any one help Raphael

I hope this question is sufficiently different from the other requests for book recommendations that it's not repetitious. If not, I apologize in advance. I'm curious what standard reference books working statisticians, or biostatisticians, have within easy reach of their desk. I'm a computer systems administrator, and have a two-foot bookshelf directory under my monitor that contains

Hello everyone. It is time to start writing more and more function and I want to read in a good reference -book ( I can buy one, especially if it is second handed :P) -online tutorial -any other guide -How functions really work in R -How to write bigger R programs -If there are local function variables. -Global ones and how to treat them -How to include function files in order to keep your all

Hi, Does anybody know suitable documents (manuals) on writing user functions (covering loops, conditions ...) in R? Other than the usually available manuals. Thanks, Rado -- Radoslav Bonk M.S. Dept. of Physical Geography and Geoecology Faculty of Sciences, Comenius University Mlynska Dolina 842 15, Bratislava, SLOVAKIA tel: +421 905 968 127 e-mail: rbonk at host.sk

As of a moment ago (9 a.m., Monday, Jan. 8, 2001), the S Programming book by Venables and Ripley was once again selling for 17.98 American dollars at Amazon.com. Alas, I notice that "Mixed Effects Models in S and S-Plus" by Pinheiro and Bates now lists at Amazon for 97.25 American dollars, as opposed to about $70 a little while ago.

I have been trying to do tukey's test to no avail. This is what I have and the error produced: pen.df = data.frame(blend, treatment, y) source("tukey.1.r") tukey.1(aov.pen, pen.df) Error in tukey.1(aov.pen, pen.df) : the model must be two-way This is a two-way design. Therefore I am confused. Can anyone help? Raphael > pen.df blend treatment y 1 1 A 89 2

I am new to R. I am going to by one of the following book: 1. William N. Venables and Brian D. Ripley. Modern Applied Statistics with S-Plus. Third Edition. Springer, 1999. ISBN 0-387-98825-4. 2. The Fourth Edition of the book from point 1. 3. `S Programming' by W. N. Venables and B. D. Ripley Springer. ISBN 0-387-98966-8, 2000. I can only by one of the above books. Q1. I have found

Dear ALL, I am trying to run Tinn R for the first time with R. I have already selected the SDI option. When ever I run the code I get the following error: > source(.trPaths[4]) Error in source(.trPaths[4]) : object '.trPaths' not found Can any one help? Raphael

I came across a very cheap of the infamous blue book - The New S Language (1988). Is this book still relevant to modern S or R or am I wasting my time? -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the

Hi-- I'm trying to teach myself R using Peter Dalgaard's "Introductory Statistics with R." Does anyone know if there are solutions available for the exercises? I'm really just hoping to learn by going through exercises and checking myself, so alternatively, does anyone know of an introductory textbook to R that does have answers available either in the back or online?

As a complete newcomer I am attempting to learn to use R, but am finding it extremely difficult because I have not yet found an "Introduction to R". For over a week now I have monitored the R-help list, studied the R-FAQ and related documents, downloaded and run the Windows R and looked at the Help, downloaded early and late samples of the R-help archives, and searched for illuminating

Consider a matrix like > ma = matrix(10:15, nr = 3) > ma [,1] [,2] [1,] 10 13 [2,] 11 14 [3,] 12 15 I want to rearrange each column according to row indexes (1 to 3) given in another matrix, as in > idx = matrix(c(1,3,2, 2,3,1), nr = 3) > idx [,1] [,2] [1,] 1 2 [2,] 3 3 [3,] 2 1 The new matrix mb will have for each column the

Hi there, I am trying to run a liner regression using lm with na.action = NULL, but I am getting an error message. Any ideas as to why this may be happening? Please see code and error message below: > reg_test<-lm(yy~.,data=test,na.action=NULL) Error in lm.fit(x, y, offset = offset, singular.ok = singular.ok, ...) : NA/NaN/Inf in foreign function call (arg 4) This message and