On Thu, 24 Aug 2006, Joerg van den Hoff wrote: > Raphael Fraser wrote: > > I am new to R and am looking for a book that can help in learning to > > program in R. I have looked at the R website suggested books but I am > > still not sure which book best suite my needs. I am interesting in > > programming, data manipulation not statistics. Any suggestions?
If you know German, then Uwe Ligges' 2005 book "Programmieren mit R" may be what you are looking for. Some German-speakers I was teaching found it very useful. http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,,1-40109-22-26682866-0,00.html > > > > Raphael > > > > ______________________________________________ > > [email protected] 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. > > > "S Programming" by Venables and Ripley (Springer) seems the only(?) one > around targeting the language, not it's applications. luckily, it's very > good. for the rest (things specific to R, e.g. package development, > namespaces etc.) I think one can only resort to the R manuals . > > ______________________________________________ > [email protected] 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. > -- Roger Bivand Economic Geography Section, Department of Economics, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, Helleveien 30, N-5045 Bergen, Norway. voice: +47 55 95 93 55; fax +47 55 95 95 43 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________ [email protected] 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.
