- go with Bob and Peter's book. Too many sources can be confusing. - Join the list, create filters for keywords of your specialty (like from R -Help ) contains regression. - Try use it for a live project .
Let the R begin Ajay On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 7:46 PM, John Kane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not a statistician so my approach may not make sense for you but I'd > suggests having a look at Bob Muenchen's R for SAS and SPSS users in pdf > form (very useful) or his new book with the same title (which I have not > seen yet) for a start. http://rforsasandspssusers.com/ > > If you want some very, very basic things I'd suggest having a look at the > tutorial at http://www.math.ilstu.edu/dhkim/Rstuff/Rtutor.html > > After that there are any number of useful references and on-line materials > available through the R site. Have a look at Books and Other on the left > hand side of the page. > > If you can get them, I'd suggest having a look at Peter Dalgaard's > Introductory Statistics with R or John Verzani's Simple R. The stats may > be simple for you but the organized treatment of how to use these stats in R > is very valuable. > > The Introduction to R is very good but, at the risk of being accused of > heresy, I'd suggest that it is much better if you read it after you get a > feeling for the language. It also should be downloaded and read in the PDF > format. > > Read the FAQ carefully, especially Section 7. Section 7 highlights a lot > of little things that can confuse a new user and reading it can save you > hours of pounding your head against the wall. > > > > > From: saggak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: How to learn R language? > > To: r-help@r-project.org > > Date: Wednesday, 27 August, 2008, 3:37 PM > > > > Hi! > > > > I am a post graduate in Statistics. I want to learn R > > language, but am very confused as to how to begin > > systematically. I need to learn R language from Statistics > > point of view e.g. I need to fit distributions to data or > > run regression analysis etc. No doubt there are so many > > articles available on internet. But can someone guide me as > > to how do I begin and go on improving myself SYSTEMATICALLY? > > > > Hence, please guide me as to how should I start learning R > > language? What should I read first etc. > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > > Sagga K > > > > __________________________________________________________________ > [[elided Yahoo spam]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@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. > -- Regards, Ajay Ohri http://tinyurl.com/liajayohri [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@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.
