Re: [R] Learning advanced R

2018-03-14 Thread Spencer Graves
On 2018-03-14 11:52, Rich Shepard wrote: On Wed, 14 Mar 2018, Duncan Murdoch wrote: I'm all for learning more languages and using the one that's best for each job, but for people who don't know Python, it would be helpful to list the aspects in which it excels. When should an R user choose

Re: [R] Learning advanced R

2018-03-14 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 14 Mar 2018, Duncan Murdoch wrote: I'm all for learning more languages and using the one that's best for each job, but for people who don't know Python, it would be helpful to list the aspects in which it excels. When should an R user choose to write something in Python instead?

Re: [R] Learning advanced R

2018-03-14 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 14/03/2018 12:07 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: On Wed, 14 Mar 2018, Barry Rowlingson wrote: Depending on your application, I'm not sure there's much point in being an "advanced R programmer" these days. Become an adequate R programmer, and learn C++ and Rcpp. Do basic data mashing in R, then do

Re: [R] Learning advanced R

2018-03-14 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 14 Mar 2018, Barry Rowlingson wrote: Depending on your application, I'm not sure there's much point in being an "advanced R programmer" these days. Become an adequate R programmer, and learn C++ and Rcpp. Do basic data mashing in R, then do all your intensive stuff in C++ with Rcpp.

Re: [R] Learning advanced R

2018-03-14 Thread Barry Rowlingson
Depending on your application, I'm not sure there's much point in being an "advanced R programmer" these days. Become an adequate R programmer, and learn C++ and Rcpp. Do basic data mashing in R, then do all your intensive stuff in C++ with Rcpp. Eventually you'll probably get to the point where

Re: [R] Learning advanced R

2018-03-14 Thread Eric Berger
Bert's suggestion is good as a pointer to a variety of resources. Sticking to the book format there are two of Hadley Wickham's books, which have the advantage that they are freely available. You can either read them online or download the source from github and create your own copy (which you can

Re: [R] Learning advanced R

2018-03-13 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 13 Mar 2018, Mark Leeds wrote: See Hadley's advanced R +1 A very well writte, highly useful book. Recommended. Rich __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE

Re: [R] Learning advanced R

2018-03-13 Thread Bert Gunter
See here for some suggestions: https://www.rstudio.com/online-learning/#R Cheers, Bert Bert Gunter "The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along and sticking things into it." -- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip ) On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at

Re: [R] Learning advanced R

2018-03-13 Thread Mark Leeds
See Hadley's advanced R along Thomas Mailund's books. I haven't gone through them carefully but they both seem (from what I've looked at ) to be the best ones for that. Mentions of others are appreciated. On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 5:26 PM, Nik Tuzov wrote: > > Hello:

[R] Learning advanced R

2018-03-13 Thread Nik Tuzov
Hello: Could you please suggest the best way to become an "advanced" R programmer. I went through "R for dummies" by de Vries and Meys and I can see two ways to proceed: 1) Get a more advanced textbook. E.g. could you recommend Gentleman, "R for Bioinformatics"? 2) Because textbooks are