Maybe you should just bypass that book for one of these? http://www.springer.com/series/6991
-Ro On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Michael Hannon <jm_han...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > Greetings. I'm trying to learn to program in R. (I'm definitely NOT new to > programming, just to R.) A colleague suggested that I have a look at the > book: > > An Introduction to S and S-Plus > by: > Phil Spector > > I've glanced at the book, and it does indeed seem to be the kind of thing I > wanted, but in the Introduction to the book, the author says he'll be using > several example data sets throughout the book, including: > > 1. auto.stats > > 2. saving.x > > 3. rain.nyc1 > > 4. state.x77 > > The author states: > > These data sets should be available as part of the standard > S distribution, so you can simply refer to them as they are > used in the examples. > > Of course I want to use R, not S. I have every "R-*" package installed on my > Fedora linux system, but I can't find any of the data sets mentioned above. > (The command "locate rain.nyc" produces no output, for instance.) > > It's entirely possible that these data sets are installed, but I just don't > know enough about R to determine that. > > Hence, I need to help to find out if the data sets are installed, or if they > CAN > be installed, etc. > > If you can steer me in the right direction, please do so. > > Thanks. > > -- Mike > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > ______________________________________________ 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.
