On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Spencer Graves wrote: > Have you considered the two books by Venables and Ripley (2002) Modern > Applied Statistics in S and (2000) S Programming (both Springer)? If > yes, I don't know what you mean by "the usually available manuals."
In addition, John Chambers's "Programming with Data" (aka The Green Book) is a good source. > hope this helps. > > Rado Bonk wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Does anybody know suitable documents (manuals) on writing user functions > > (covering loops, conditions ...) in R? Other than the usually available > > manuals. It all depends on how much programming experience you already have. I'm giving a small workshop next week on these areas and my notes are available at http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~kwan022/rinfo.php I'm planning on extend the notes into a book I'm writing -- which will be submitted to CRAN when it is completed. -- Cheers, Kevin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." -- Charles Babbage (1791-1871) ---- From Computer Stupidities: http://rinkworks.com/stupid/ -- Ko-Kang Kevin Wang Master of Science (MSc) Student SLC Tutor and Lab Demonstrator Department of Statistics University of Auckland New Zealand Homepage: http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~kwan022 Ph: 373-7599 x88475 (City) x88480 (Tamaki) ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help