The Pogue Missing Manual is good. As are the O'Reilly books. Some of them are more about the Unix under the hood; those are good if you don't have Unix experience, and others are more about the vagaries of Mac-dom. You sort of have to watch it, though--some are dated...
Kent On Jan 23, 2011, at 5:15 PM, Hodgess, Erin wrote: > Dear R Mac People: > > I got a Mac Book Air for Christmas but I'm just starting to work with it. > > I've never had a Mac of any kind before but have used Windows and Ubuntu. > > Could you recommend any "baby Mac" references for me, please? > > Also, if I download the R Mac binary, does it work like Windows, in the sense > that I just click and install please? > > Thank you for your patience! > > Sincerely, > Erin > > > Erin M. Hodgess, PhD > Associate Professor > Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences > University of Houston - Downtown > mailto: [email protected] > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Mac mailing list > [email protected] > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
