Have you seen "The Basics of S Plus", by Krause and Olson? It's really good too . On 7/5/07, Mike Prager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Pietrzykowski, Matthew (GE, Research)" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello all- > > > > I would appreciate any guidance that can be provided. > >I am new to R and am using it exclusively in a statistics > > program I am undertaking that mainly references > > Minitab. My focus is on data modeling and further > > more multivariate data analysis [...] > > I I am looking for a reference that has sound statistical > > foundations with relevant R commands as well as > > multivariate support. I saw the new book, > > "The R Book", by Michael J. Crawley and wanted to > > know what R users thoughts of it. > > I can't comment on The R Book, as I haven't seen it. This is to > point out some other references for your consideration. In > order of most technical to most relaxed: > > The standard reference for many R users is "Modern Applied > Statistics with S" by Venables and Ripley, two important > contributors to R. This has a language introduction and a great > variety of statistical material in its 500 pages. Though I > haven't read every word, I would not for a nanosecond doubt its > "sound statistical foundations." It seems to me that every R > user would benefit from having MASS (as it's called) on his > shelf. > > More relaxed in presentation but still with some multivariate > coverage is "Data Analysis and Graphics using R," by Maindonald > and Braun, also names quite familiar to most R users. This is > more typical of a introductory statistics textbook, and shorter > (about 350 p.). > > Even more relaxed but with less breadth of statistical topics is > "Introductory Statistics with R" by Dalgaard, yet another > familiar contributor to R. This is an excellent introductory > book. After I had been using R for 5 years, I bought a copy and > learned several good things immediately. About 270 p. > > You may want to examine those (along with Crawley's) before > settling on the what you want to buy. > > I hope that helps. > > Mike > > -- > Mike Prager, NOAA, Beaufort, NC > * Opinions expressed are personal and not represented otherwise. > * Any use of tradenames does not constitute a NOAA endorsement. > > ______________________________________________ > [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. >
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