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The first hit shall be Paul Johnsons's howto's which helped me several years ago especially with basic issues. Regards Petr r-help-boun...@r-project.org napsal dne 10.10.2009 18:00:19: > > I'm just learning R (I don't know any other programming languages), > > and I have a question. I am trying to figure out how to ask for user > > input (say, a set of 3 numbers) then put those numbers into an array. > > I've looked around, but I haven't been able to find any answers that I > > understand. > > Thanks! > > Astoundingly, finding out how to load my own datasets was one of the hardest > things for me to find information on when I was new to R and I had > considerable programming experience. Part of the problem was that I didn't > yet know exactly what R documentation was available or how to easily access > it. Further, veteran users tend to assume loading datasets is easy, and > much documentation and sample code uses 'generated data'. Thus, sample code > demonstrating 'loading datasets' is a little hard to find when you are > starting out! > > The official recommendation would go something like, "You probably want to > read the Import/Export documentation." You can find this on Windows GUI > under help | manuals | Data Import/Export. Of course you proably also need > to read chapter 7 of An Introduction to R which is also linked under manuals > in the help menu. That said, I offer some beginner cheats you might find > useful below. I particularly recommend the Verzzani Appendix. > > Things you could type at the command line to learn more about different ways > to enter data are: > ?scan > ?read.table > ?read.delim > ?read.csv > > "Beginner cheats Suggestions" > > If you want GUI data input (of dataframes), I'd suggest installing and > running the Rcmdr package. It lets you load many types of datasets, > including Excel files. These can be used within Rcmdr or from the command > line. > > If you are really new to R, I suggest looking at some of the contributed > documentation to get a feel for how things are done as well as how to load > user data > http://cran.us.r-project.org/other-docs.html > > In particular, look at the appendix in John Verzzani's document to see a > pragmatic description of using scan to input user data. (see Appendix: > Entering Data in R on p. 103 or so). > http://cran.us.r-project.org/doc/contrib/Verzani-SimpleR.pdf > > ______________________________________________ > 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.
