On Tue, 2 Jun 2009 20:03:31 -0500, Mike Sears <[email protected]> wrote:

>> I want to sit down and learn R.
>> Where is the best place to start?
>
>At your computer! ;)
>
>If you are looking for a book, good ones are Michael Crawley's Statistics: An
>Introduction Using R or Peter Dalgaard's Introductory Statistics with R.
>


If I may be bold enough to refer to our own book:

A Beginner's Guide to R (2009)
Zuur, Ieno, Meesters. Springer

Available for pre-ordering from:
http://www.springer.com/statistics/computational/book/978-0-387-93836-3

Should be available in a month or so. 

Alain





>Crawley is a biologist, and his book might be a little more accessible to
>ecologists. He has also written a much more comprehensive book on R, The R
>Book, which is useful.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Mike
>
>>
>> Malcolm
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 4:58 PM, Gavin Simpson <[email protected]>
>wrote:
>> > On Tue, 2009-06-02 at 14:15 -0700, AdRiAnA HuMaNeS wrote:
>> >> Dear Listers:
>> >> I am writing to ask if anyone knows a statistical program besides
>> >> PERMANOVA= that can do ANOVAS of mixed designs with four factors (two
>> >> orthogonals and= two nested) and unbalanced data,
>> >>
>> >> Best Regards
>> >>
>> >> Adriana Humanes
>> >
>> > Function adonis() in the vegan package for R can fit this type of model.
>> >
>> > You can find out more here:
>> >
>> > http://cran.r-project.org/package=vegan
>> >
>> > HTH,
>> >
>> > G
>> >
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