On Jan 12, 2009, at 3:36 PM, Robert Wilk wrote:
any useful books for learning the R statistical software?
are they pricey?
Compared to medical texts, they are dirt cheap.
and if the books recommended focus on S, how compatible will they be
for
someone learning R?
Many are available for R these days. It used to be that MASS editions
1 through 4 by Venables and Ripley were the canonical starting points,
but in recent years Dalgaard and other have contributed efforts at
intro and intermediate texts. Cutting and pasting from the R-books page:
http://www.r-project.org/doc/bib/R-books.html
[18] Peter Dalgaard. Introductory Statistics with R.
[49] John Verzani. Using R for Introductory Statistics.
[48] Michael J. Crawley. Statistics: An Introduction using R.
[62] William N. Venables and Brian D. Ripley. Modern Applied
Statistics with S. Fourth Edition. (mentions only S in the title but I
believe that where differences exist, they are pointed out in this
edition.)
[63] John Fox. An R and S-Plus Companion to Applied Regression.
[65] Frank E. Harrell. Regression Modeling Strategies, with
Applications to Linear Models, Survival Analysis and Logistic
Regression. (I don't think Harrell intended this as a tutorial but I
can't resist a plug. Alzola and Harrell have published a useful book
length guide:
http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/twiki/pub/Main/RS/sintro.pdf
And Kuhnert and Venables have also written a book length pdf:
http://cran.r-project.org/doc/contrib/Kuhnert+Venables-R_Course_Notes.zip
thank you in advance for your help.
P.S.
specialized survey statistical procedures? Is R good at that?
See whether Lumley's survey package functions are sufficient.
Knowledgeable people have opined that they are more complete than what
is available in SAS.
http://faculty.washington.edu/tlumley/survey/
--
David Winsemius, MD
Heritage Labs
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