On Tue, 3 Jan 2006, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: ... > In fact there are some things that are very easy > to do in Stata and can be done in R but only with more difficulty. > For example, consider this introductory session in Stata: > > http://www.stata.com/capabilities/session.html > > Looking at the first few queries, > see how easy it is to take the top few in Stata whereas in R one would > have a complex use of order. Its not hard in R to write a function > that would make it just as easy but its not available off the top > of one's head though RSiteSearch("sort.data.frame") will find one > if one knew what to search for.
This sort of thing points to an opportunity for documentation. Building a tutorial session in R on how one would do a similar analysis would provide another method of learning R. "An Introduction to R" is a good bottom-up introduction, which if you work through it does teach you how to do several things. Adapting other tutorials or extended problems, like the Stata session, to R would give additional entry points. A few end-to-end tutorials on some interesting analyses would be helpful. Any volunteers? Dave -- Dr. David Forrest [EMAIL PROTECTED] (804)684-7900w [EMAIL PROTECTED] (804)642-0662h http://maplepark.com/~drf5n/ ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html