Dear Dagfinn, since you know SAS, Bob Munchen's "R for SAS and SPSS Users" may be useful.
Cheers, - axel Axel Klenk Research Informatician Actelion Pharmaceuticals Ltd / Gewerbestrasse 16 / CH-4123 Allschwil / Switzerland From: Dagfinn Rime <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Date: 15.03.2012 14:12 Subject: [R-sig-teaching] Books on R-programming for newbies Sent by: [email protected] Dear all, I'm new to R and need to learn how to program R, and would appreciate suggestions for e.g. two books in order to get going. What type of books? Well, if I were to suggest books for a newcomer to LaTeX I would say that "all" you need is Lamport's book and "The LaTeX Companion" (2nd ed). Is there something similar for R? A not-too long introductory book and one more comprehensive "reference"-like book? My level? * Statistics? I have a PhD in finance and know "applied statistics/econometrics" * Programming? I currently do all my analysis via programming ("scripting") in SAS or Eviews. The R-project page mention 115 books? I made notice of the following: 1. Paul Teetor. R Cookbook. O'Reilly, first edition, 2011 2. Rob Kabacoff. R in Action. Manning, 2010. 3. David Ruppert. Statistics and Data Analysis for Financial Engineering. Use R! Springer, 2010 4. Alain F. Zuur, Elena N. Ieno, and Erik Meesters. A Beginner's Guide to R. Use R. Springer, 2009 >From Amazon the following caught my attention: 1. R in a Nutshell (In a Nutshell (O'Reilly)) 2. The R Book by Michael J. Crawley I have probably missed some (many), and there are probably lots of different views. But I would appreciate any guidance and views. Thanks in advance, Dagfinn Rime Research department, Norges Bank www.norges-bank.no/research/rime/ _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-teaching The information of this email and in any file transmitted with it is strictly confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, any copying, distribution or any other use of this email is prohibited and may be unlawful. In such case, you should please notify the sender immediately and destroy this email. The content of this email is not legally binding unless confirmed by letter. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the message states otherwise and the sender is authorised to state them to be the views of the sender's company. For further information about Actelion please see our website at http://www.actelion.com _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-teaching
