Re: [R] Learning R

2009-12-01 Thread Dr. Thomas W. MacFarland
Hi Julia: I am sure that you will find many useful resources as you attempt to learn R. If time permits, please look at the Tegrity-based video that I’ve prepared for my students: http://tegrity1.acast.nova.edu/tegrityUtils/GetCourseListing.aspx?Session_In fo=7KmTs8Wkvvr0/Q0TsCfcur4RNGDvBGYk0jY+

Re: [R] Learning R

2009-11-30 Thread susan jacobs
Hi, im working in R but honestly i don t know how to apply the formulas in my problem, can someone give some help? I already learn how we use the formulas but im not understanding the main issue in my problem. Johannes Huesing wrote: > > Esmail [Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 01:07:15PM CET]: > >>

Re: [R] Learning R

2009-11-30 Thread DispersionMap
Data Analysis and Graphics Using R - An Example-Based Approach John Maindonald and John Braun 2nd edn, Cambridge University Press, January 2007 susan jacobs wrote: > > Hi, > > im working in R but honestly i don t know how to apply the formulas in my > problem, can someone give some help?

Re: [R] Learning R

2009-11-30 Thread Johannes Huesing
Esmail [Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 01:07:15PM CET]: > ps: Just checked, 'R in a Nutshell': > http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596801717 > release date dec 2009/jan 2010 You can't really judge a book by its cover, and in this case not even the cover is presented to us. But judging by the author's

Re: [R] Learning R

2009-11-30 Thread Benton, Paul
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 newc

Re: [R] Learning R

2009-11-30 Thread Ben Seligman
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 p

Re: [R] Learning R

2009-11-30 Thread Adaikalavan Ramasamy
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, b

Re: [R] Learning R

2009-11-30 Thread Esmail
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 lear

Re: [R] Learning R

2009-11-30 Thread Hrishi Mittal
These are some good resources for learning R: Quick-R - http://www.statmethods.net/ >From Data to Graphics - http://zoonek2.free.fr/UNIX/48_R/03.html UCLA Resources to help you learn and use R - http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/r/ Good luck! -- View this message in context: http://n4.nabble.com/L

Re: [R] Learning R

2009-11-30 Thread Paul Hiemstra
Hi Julia, I would really recommend reading a book on R. A good option might by the "Introductory statistics with R" by Peter Dalgaard, or the MASS (Modern Applied Statistics with S) book. The advantage of a book is that it presents a coherent overview, saving you time to wade through the enor

Re: [R] Learning R

2009-11-29 Thread Meyners, Michael, LAUSANNE, AppliedMathematics
hat best meets your requirements. HTH, Michael > -Original Message- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org > [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Julia Cains > Sent: Montag, 30. November 2009 08:23 > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: [R] Learning R > &g

[R] Learning R

2009-11-29 Thread Julia Cains
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 ha

Re: [R] Learning R - View datasets

2009-11-27 Thread ojal john owino
Hi Brock, Have you tried View() ? Regards. On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 7:46 AM, Brock Tibert wrote: > Hi All, > > I am making a serious effort to try to learn R, but one hurdle I am facing > is that I need to "see" the data as I walk through the examples in the > packages. For instance, many exam

Re: [R] Learning R - View datasets

2009-11-27 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Try this: # each of these three show entire data set wines dput(wines) View(wines) # get help ?wines # various info on data set head(wines) tail(wines) summary(wines) str(wines) class(wines) dim(wines) # plotting plot(wines) # for a better plot see the example at the bottom of ?wines On Thu, N

Re: [R] Learning R - View datasets

2009-11-27 Thread Liviu Andronic
Hello On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 4:46 AM, Brock Tibert wrote: > In short, I know that data() lists all of the available datasets, > data("wines") will load the dataset wines, but how can I look at the raw data? > See this [1]. [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/r-help@r-project.org/msg66111.html Livi

Re: [R] Learning R - View datasets

2009-11-27 Thread Paul Hiemstra
Brock Tibert wrote: Hi All, I am making a serious effort to try to learn R, but one hurdle I am facing is that I need to "see" the data as I walk through the examples in the packages. For instance, many examples on the web start by a command like data("wines"). How can I actually view what

Re: [R] Learning R - View datasets

2009-11-27 Thread Wincent
There are different ways to inspect the conent of a data frame. For example, >View(CO2) 2009/11/27 Brock Tibert : > Hi All, > > I am making a serious effort to try to learn R, but one hurdle I am facing is > that I need to "see" the data as I walk through the examples in the packages. >  For i

Re: [R] Learning R - View datasets

2009-11-27 Thread guohao.huang
, November 27, 2009 4:00 PM To: Cc: "Brock Tibert" ; Subject: Re: [R] Learning R - View datasets guohao.hu...@gmail.com wrote: > Please check the following pdf file. > http://tw.nextmedia.com/applenews/article/art_id/32119622/IssueID/20091127 > Besides a beautiful blond gir

Re: [R] Learning R - View datasets

2009-11-27 Thread Mario Valle
vector > > If you do not know how to get these value, you can read ``R introduction''. > I hope this can help you. > > > Guo-Hao > Huang > > > > -- > Fro

Re: [R] Learning R - View datasets

2009-11-26 Thread guohao.huang
on''. I hope this can help you. Guo-Hao Huang -- From: "Brock Tibert" Sent: Friday, November 27, 2009 12:

[R] Learning R - View datasets

2009-11-26 Thread Brock Tibert
Hi All, I am making a serious effort to try to learn R, but one hurdle I am facing is that I need to "see" the data as I walk through the examples in the packages. For instance, many examples on the web start by a command like data("wines"). How can I actually view what the dataset looks like

Re: [R] learning R

2009-02-25 Thread Wacek Kusnierczyk
markle...@verizon.net wrote: > Hi Wacek: Somewhere I remember reading that environments have > functionality like lists EXCEPT for the names part. IIRC, I think that > I read this in the R Language Reference manual also. > > this would be a confused and confusing statement, unless 'functionality'

Re: [R] learning R

2009-02-25 Thread markleeds
Thanks Berwin. You're correct in that I meant the R Language Definition. Well, it may be a draft but I read it for the first time a few months ago and it was very enlightening so, whether it's a draft or not, I highly recommend it. ( but not for total beginners. The R-intro is better for a m

Re: [R] learning R

2009-02-25 Thread markleeds
Hi Wacek: Somewhere I remember reading that environments have functionality like lists EXCEPT for the names part. IIRC, I think that I read this in the R Language Reference manual also. On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 4:32 AM, Wacek Kusnierczyk wrote: a quick follow-up: e = new.env() e$a

Re: [R] learning R

2009-02-25 Thread Wacek Kusnierczyk
Berwin A Turlach wrote: > On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 09:57:36 +0100 > Wacek Kusnierczyk wrote: > > >> markle...@verizon.net wrote: >> >>> David, Wacek: Just so everyone knows, I just looked and this is >>> explained quite clearly in the R Language Reference manual, very >>> similarly to what Wac

Re: [R] learning R

2009-02-25 Thread Berwin A Turlach
On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 09:57:36 +0100 Wacek Kusnierczyk wrote: > markle...@verizon.net wrote: > > David, Wacek: Just so everyone knows, I just looked and this is > > explained quite clearly in the R Language Reference manual, very > > similarly to what Wacek did below. > > > thanks, that's good, be

Re: [R] learning R

2009-02-25 Thread Wacek Kusnierczyk
a quick follow-up: e = new.env() e$a = 1 names(e) # NULL names(e) = 'a' # error in names(e) = "foo" : names() applied to a non-vector this is surprising. names(e) 'works', there is no complaint, but when names<- is used, the error is about the use of names, not names<-.

Re: [R] learning R

2009-02-25 Thread Wacek Kusnierczyk
markle...@verizon.net wrote: > David, Wacek: Just so everyone knows, I just looked and this is > explained quite clearly in the R Language Reference manual, very > similarly to what Wacek did below. > thanks, that's good, because i made it up following the page quoted by david, and if i'm flamed f

Re: [R] learning R

2009-02-25 Thread Petr PIKAL
Hi r-help-boun...@r-project.org napsal dne 25.02.2009 06:18:04: > Hi Ira: > > For your first question, under the hood of R, names<- is actually a > function so , when you do that, you need to say names(a)[2] rather > than names(a[2]). why this is is tricky and I wouldn't do it justice if > i t

Re: [R] learning R

2009-02-25 Thread markleeds
David, Wacek: Just so everyone knows, I just looked and this is explained quite clearly in the R Language Reference manual, very similarly to what Wacek did below. On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 3:42 AM, Wacek Kusnierczyk wrote: David Winsemius wrote: On Feb 24, 2009, at 11:36 PM, Fuchs Ira wrot

Re: [R] learning R

2009-02-25 Thread Wacek Kusnierczyk
David Winsemius wrote: > > On Feb 24, 2009, at 11:36 PM, Fuchs Ira wrote: > >> I was wondering why the following doesn't work: >> >> > a=c(1,2) >> > names(a)=c("one","two") >> > a >> one two >> 1 2 >> > >> > names(a[2]) >> [1] "two" >> > >> > names(a[2])="too" >> > names(a) >> [1] "one" "two" >>

Re: [R] learning R

2009-02-25 Thread Wacek Kusnierczyk
Fuchs Ira wrote: > I was wondering why the following doesn't work: > > > a=c(1,2) > > names(a)=c("one","two") > > a > one two > 1 2 > > > > names(a[2]) > [1] "two" > > > > names(a[2])="too" > > names(a) > [1] "one" "two" > > a > one two > 1 2 > > I must not be understanding some basic conce

Re: [R] learning R

2009-02-24 Thread markleeds
Hi Ira: For your first question, under the hood of R, names<- is actually a function so , when you do that, you need to say names(a)[2] rather than names(a[2]). why this is is tricky and I wouldn't do it justice if i tried to explain it. it's best if you do ?"names<-" at an R prompt and read t

Re: [R] learning R

2009-02-24 Thread David Winsemius
On Feb 25, 2009, at 12:12 AM, David Winsemius wrote: On Feb 24, 2009, at 11:36 PM, Fuchs Ira wrote: also unrelated: if I have two vectors and I want to combine them to form a matrix ,is cbind (or rbind) the most direct way to do this? e.g. x=c(1,2,3) y=c(3,4,5) z=rbind(x,y) Tha

Re: [R] learning R

2009-02-24 Thread David Winsemius
On Feb 24, 2009, at 11:36 PM, Fuchs Ira wrote: I was wondering why the following doesn't work: > a=c(1,2) > names(a)=c("one","two") > a one two 1 2 > > names(a[2]) [1] "two" > > names(a[2])="too" > names(a) [1] "one" "two" > a one two 1 2 I must not be understanding some basic concept h

[R] learning R

2009-02-24 Thread Fuchs Ira
I was wondering why the following doesn't work: > a=c(1,2) > names(a)=c("one","two") > a one two 1 2 > > names(a[2]) [1] "two" > > names(a[2])="too" > names(a) [1] "one" "two" > a one two 1 2 I must not be understanding some basic concept here. Why doesn't the 2nd name change to "too"?