Re: [R] Learning the R way – A Wish

2013-03-06 Thread Patrick Burns
On 06/03/2013 07:20, Andrew Hoerner wrote: Dear Patrick-- After the official Core Team's R manuals and the individual function help pages, I have found "The R Inferno" to be the single most useful piece of documentation when I have gotten stuck with a R problems. It is the only introduction that

Re: [R] Learning the R way – A Wish

2013-03-05 Thread Andrew Hoerner
Dear Patrick-- After the official Core Team's R manuals and the individual function help pages, I have found "The R Inferno" to be the single most useful piece of documentation when I have gotten stuck with a R problems. It is the only introduction that seems to be aware of the ambiguities present

Re: [R] Learning the R way – A Wish

2013-03-05 Thread Andrew Hoerner
Thanks, Andrew! I'll put it on my list. I have not been through much of it yet, but the exercises on count data are excelent and at least one of them is immediately helpful to a current project. With appreciation, andrewH On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 7:28 PM, Andrew Koeser wrote: > The book that help

Re: [R] Learning the R way – A Wish

2013-03-05 Thread Andrew Hoerner
Thanks, David! That bookfinder.com search is awesome! I checked four sites and the best price i found for the white Bokk used was $99 + $4 shipping. This was a quarter of that. So i just bought it. The Venables and Ripley book was actually part of my previous budget-busting splurge. I agree with

Re: [R] Learning the R way – A Wish

2013-03-05 Thread Andrew Hoerner
Dear Mark-- I've just spent an hour and a half reading chapters from Hadley's book. It is phenomenal. Thanks for pointing it out to me --andrewH On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 9:04 PM, Mark Leeds wrote: > Hi Andrew: Not that I've gone through it all yet but the draft of hadley's > book at https://g

Re: [R] Learning the R way – A Wish

2013-03-04 Thread Mark Leeds
Hi Andrew: Not that I've gone through it all yet but the draft of hadley's book at https://github.com/hadley/devtools/wiki/Introduction has a lot if not all of the commands you refer to and all of their gory details along with many examples. No matter what you're budget, given that the book will b

Re: [R] Learning the R way – A Wish

2013-03-04 Thread Andrew Koeser
The book that helped me break into R and more advanced texts was Crawley's "Statistics: An Introduction with R." Very light read that assumes no prior knowledge with stats or R. I am using it to teach my fellow grad students R and all agree it was worth scrimping pennies to get. He also has a

Re: [R] Learning the R way – A Wish

2013-03-04 Thread David Winsemius
On Mar 4, 2013, at 3:42 PM, andrewH wrote: > There is something that I wish I had that I think would help me a lot to be a > better R programmer, that I think would probably help many others as well. > I put the wish out there in the hopes that someone might think it was worth > doing at some p

[R] Learning the R way – A Wish

2013-03-04 Thread andrewH
There is something that I wish I had that I think would help me a lot to be a better R programmer, that I think would probably help many others as well. I put the wish out there in the hopes that someone might think it was worth doing at some point. I wish I had the code of some substantial, wid