Thanks Alain. Guess bite the bullet with limited budget buy bunch >From Amazon and see what reads best and return the rest!.
One ends up collecting so many books (most of bought 5 books on Bayesian analysis years ago), still like browsing shelfs! Regards, Neil -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alain Reymond Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 6:23 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [R] R Book Advice Needed [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : > I am new to using R and would appreciate some advice on which books to > start with to get up to speed on using R. > > My Background: > 1-C# programmer. > 2-Programmed directly using IMSL (Now Visual Numerics). > 3- Used in past SPSS and Statistica. > > I put together a list but would like to pick the "best of" > and avoid redundancy. > > Any suggestions on these books would be helpful (i.e. too much > overlap, porly written etc?) > > Books: > 1-Analysis of Integrated and Co-integrated Time Series with R (Use R) > - Bernhard Pfaff 2-An Introduction to R - W. N. Venables > 3-Statistics: An Introduction using R - Michael J. Crawley 4-R > Graphics (Computer Science and Data Analysis) - Paul Murrell 5-A > Handbook of Statistical Analyses Using R - Brian S. Everitt > 6-Introductory Statistics with R - Peter Dalgaard 7-Using R for > Introductory Statistics - John Verzani 8-Data Analysis and Graphics > Using R - John Maindonald; 9-Linear Models with R (Texts in > Statistical Science) - Julian J. > Faraway > 10-Analysis of Financial Time Series (Wiley Series in Probability and > Statistics)2nd edition - Ruey S. Tsay > > Thanks. > > Neil Gottlieb > Neil, I am also new to R and I just bought the book of Peter Dalgaard (n°6). I find it very practical. It covers a large panel of principal statistical techniques that you can use directly. I thinkk it is a good start for a R beginner. At least, it is good for me! Don't forget the many resources on the R website. Regards. -- Alain Reymond CEIA Bd Saint-Michel 119 1040 Bruxelles Tel: +32 2 736 04 58 Fax: +32 2 736 58 02 [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGPId : 0xEFB06E2E ______________________________________________ [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. -------------------------------------------------------- This information is being sent at the recipient's request or...{{dropped}} ______________________________________________ [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.
