Julia, I can vouch for the 'Statistical Analysis in R'. Very good book, I learnt R from it. The other one to look at is Spoetry. It solves a lot of problem for me.
Paul http://www.burns-stat.com/pages/spoetry.html On 30 Nov 2009, at 17:17, Ben Seligman wrote: > Hi Julia, > > I'm also a newcomer to R and to this listserv (in the past two weeks). One > book that was recommended to me, and has been extraordinarily helpful in > learning how to really make use of R, is "A Beginner's Guide to R", which > focuses on data entry/import, data manipulation, functions, and plotting. I > quite literally went from barely being able to use R to finishing most of > the analysis I need for a term paper in about 10 (well-rested) days thanks > to it. > > I've also heard great things about the Dalgaard text in terms of doing > statistical analysis in R. > > I hope that helps! > > Cheers, > Ben > > On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 7:59 AM, Adaikalavan Ramasamy < > a.ramas...@imperial.ac.uk> wrote: > >> Dear Julia, >> >> Welcome. It is good that you wish to learn more about R. >> >> R has certainly become very vast in the last few years. Do you wish to >> learn R for a particular reason (financial analyses, multivariate, >> prediction/classification, genetics)? You might get more targeted reading >> materials, books and websites to follow up. >> >> Regards, Adai >> >> >> >> >> Julia Cains wrote: >> >>> Dear R helpers, >>> >>> Almost 15 days back I have become member of this very active and wonderful >>> group. So far I have been only raising queries and in turn got them solved >>> too and I really thank for the spirit this group member show when it comes >>> to the guidance. >>> >>> I wish to learn R language and I have given 2 months time for this. Can >>> anyone please guide me as how do I begin i.e. from basics to advance. >>> >>> R is such a vast thing to learn, so I wish to learn it step by step >>> without getting lost at any stage. >>> >>> Please guide me where do I start and upgrade myself to higher level step >>> by step. >>> >>> Regards >>> >>> Julia >>> >>> >>> >>> ************************************************ >>> >>> >>> >>> Only a man of Worth sees Worth in other men >>> >>> >>> >>> ************************************************ >>> >>> >>> [[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. >> > > > > -- > Benjamin Seligman > Stanford University, School of Medicine > MD Candidate, SMS II > > [[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. ______________________________________________ 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.
