On Mon, 9 Jan 2006, Michael Dewey wrote: > > Further to that I feel that (perhaps because they do not like to blow their > own trumpet too much) the authors of books on R do not stress how much most > questioners could gain by buying and reading at least one of the many books > on R. When I started I found the free documents useful but I made most > progress when I bought MASS. I do realise that liking books is a bit last > millennium. >
Very late last millenium, though. "When I were young[er] we didn't have all these fancy yellow books." More seriously, yes, reading books about R and S is very effective and is how most of the R experts learned. In my case it was the Blue Book, the White Book, and the Ripley/Venables/Smith notes on S-plus (which have evolved to the Introduction to R). -thomas "Ptolemy once asked [Euclid] if there was in geometry any shorter way that that of the Elements, and he replied that there was no royal road to geometry." Proclus (410-485 CE) ______________________________________________ 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