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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

Hello R list members, I have a good object-oriented programming and software engineering background (mostly Java) and know some R. I'd like to learn more about functional programming concepts and its support and application in R. Do you have any recommendations (books, links etc)? I read (and like) "Programming in Scala" (Odersky) and just ordered "Funktionale

Hi, I want to buy the books "Modern applied Statistics with S" and "S Programming". Both are Springer books and according to the "Discount Info" on the page books related to R (http://www.r-project.org/doc/bib/R-books.html) subject to a 20 % discount. Unfortunatley the promotion code doesn't work. I already contacted Springer but didn't get an answer. Does

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

John M. Chambers Statistical Software Award - 2011 Statistical Computing Section American Statistical Association The Statistical Computing Section of the American Statistical Association announces the competition for the John M. Chambers Statistical Software Award. In 1998 the Association for Computing Machinery presented its Software System Award to John Chambers for the design and development

As a newbie to R, I need to learn my way around (no previous experience of S).What books, doc for R are recommended? I'm interested primarly in non linear regression and process modelling (and have downloaded the R documentation from the site). Thanks for all tips Anne

In Henric's recent post, he included this output: @BOOK{R:Harrell:2001, AUTHOR = {Frank E. Harrell}, TITLE = {Regression Modeling Strategies, with Applications to Linear Models, Survival Analysis and Logistic Regression}, PUBLISHER = {Springer}, YEAR = 2001, NOTE = {ISBN 0-387-95232-2}, URL =

Can someone please recommend to me a book on the programming language that R is based on? I'm looking for a foundational book that teaches the logic of the S language. It seems that knowing the underpinnings of the language can only make using R a bit easier. Any leads are greatly appreciated . . . Matt. [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Dear R and S people: Yet another dorky question (YADQ), please: Where can I find the data sets from Chambers' green book, please? I've tried http://cm.bell-labs.com/stat/Sbook (web site, no data or even pointers....functions and articles...good ones) http://cm.bell-labs.com/stat/project/icmanuf no web site at all. Thanks in advance!

Since we're on the topic of book reviews, I just received Phil Spector's new R book called "Data Manipulation with R" and it is also quite a nice book. I haven't gone through it all and I won't give a detailed review but I have gotten a lot out of the first 100 pages that I have read. Note that I've been using R for almost 1.5 years so , for me, it's a

Dear useRs, French reading people among you might be interested by the following book: Noel, Y. (2013). Psychologie statistique avec R [Statistical psychology with R, in French], coll. PratiqueR, Paris: Springer. http://www.springer.com/psychology/book/978-2-8178-0424-8 This book provides a detailed presentation of all basics of statistical inference for psychologists, both in a fisherian

Hi, I want to look for some detailed explanation on the properties of Q-Q plot and how the properties are derived. In R, there is the following reference. Becker, R. A., Chambers, J. M. and Wilks, A. R. (1988) The New S Language. Wadsworth & Brooks/Cole. Somebody also mentioned the following book chapter to me. Chambers et al., Graphical methods for Data Analysis, Ch.6. But both books are

Dear R-help listers, The Statistical Computing Section of the American Statistical Association announces the competition for the John M. Chambers Statistical Software Award. In 1998 the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) presented the ACM Software System Award to John Chambers for the design and development of S. Dr. Chambers generously donated his award to the Statistical Computing

Hello, Is R very compatible with a Mac? A colleague of mine indicated that everyone he knows with a Mac has problems with R. What can you tell me about using R with a Mac. What do I need to download? I have downloaded the basic R package. Thanks, -- Tiffany Kinder MS Student Department of Watershed Science Utah State University tiffany.kinder@aggiemail.usu.edu [[alternative HTML version

John M. Chambers Statistical Software Award - 2008 Statistical Computing Section American Statistical Association The Statistical Computing Section of the American Statistical Association announces the competition for the John M. Chambers Statistical Software Award. In 1998 the Association for Computing Machinery presented its Software System Award to John Chambers for the design and

(sorry for cross-posting) John M. Chambers Statistical Software Award Statistical Computing Section American Statistical Association The Statistical Computing Section of the American Statistical Association announces the competition for the John M. Chambers Statistical Software Award. In 1998 the Association for Computing Machinery presented its Software System Award to John Chambers for the

John M. Chambers Statistical Software Award - 2009 Statistical Computing Section American Statistical Association The Statistical Computing Section of the American Statistical Association announces the competition for the John M. Chambers Statistical Software Award. In 1998 the Association for Computing Machinery presented its Software System Award to John Chambers for the design and development

John M. Chambers Statistical Software Award - 2010 Statistical Computing Section American Statistical Association The Statistical Computing Section of the American Statistical Association announces the competition for the John M. Chambers Statistical Software Award. In 1998 the Association for Computing Machinery presented its Software System Award to John Chambers for the design and development

I have a simple 1 way anova coded like summary(ANOVA1way <- aov(Value ~ WellID, data = welldata)) How can I use the BY function to do this ANOVA for each group using another variable in the dataset?? I tried coding it like this, but it doesn't seem to work. summary(ANOVA1way <- by(welldata, Analyte, function(x) aov(Value ~ WellID, data = welldata))) In SAS I would code it like this:

I was trying to do what is on page 70 of John Chambers' new book namely using trace to invoke the browser by doing trace(zapsmall, edit = TRUE) but , typing above at an R prompt, I get trace(zapsmall, edit=TRUE) sh: EMACS: command not found Error in edit(name, file, title, editor) : problem with running editor EMACS I looked in the archives but maybe it's a problem with the