I'm not a statistician so my approach may not make sense for you but I'd suggests having a look at Bob Muenchen's R for SAS and SPSS users in pdf form (very useful) or his new book with the same title (which I have not seen yet) for a start. http://rforsasandspssusers.com/
If you want some very, very basic things I'd suggest having a look at the tutorial at http://www.math.ilstu.edu/dhkim/Rstuff/Rtutor.html After that there are any number of useful references and on-line materials available through the R site. Have a look at Books and Other on the left hand side of the page. If you can get them, I'd suggest having a look at Peter Dalgaard's Introductory Statistics with R or John Verzani's Simple R. The stats may be simple for you but the organized treatment of how to use these stats in R is very valuable. The Introduction to R is very good but, at the risk of being accused of heresy, I'd suggest that it is much better if you read it after you get a feeling for the language. It also should be downloaded and read in the PDF format. Read the FAQ carefully, especially Section 7. Section 7 highlights a lot of little things that can confuse a new user and reading it can save you hours of pounding your head against the wall. > From: saggak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: How to learn R language? > To: r-help@r-project.org > Date: Wednesday, 27 August, 2008, 3:37 PM > > Hi! > > I am a post graduate in Statistics. I want to learn R > language, but am very confused as to how to begin > systematically. I need to learn R language from Statistics > point of view e.g. I need to fit distributions to data or > run regression analysis etc. No doubt there are so many > articles available on internet. But can someone guide me as > to how do I begin and go on improving myself SYSTEMATICALLY? > > Hence, please guide me as to how should I start learning R > language? What should I read first etc. > > Thanks in advance, > > Sagga K __________________________________________________________________ [[elided Yahoo spam]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
