[R-sig-teaching] Books on R-programming for newbies
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/ ___ R-sig-teaching@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-teaching
Re: [R-sig-teaching] Books on R-programming for newbies
Hi Dagfinn, I suggest: Rob Kabacoff. R in Action. Manning, 2010. Best, Manuel 2012/3/15 Dagfinn Rime dagfinn.r...@gmail.com 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/ ___ R-sig-teaching@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-teaching -- *Manuel Spínola, Ph.D.* Instituto Internacional en Conservación y Manejo de Vida Silvestre Universidad Nacional Apartado 1350-3000 Heredia COSTA RICA mspin...@una.ac.cr mspinol...@gmail.com Teléfono: (506) 2277-3598 Fax: (506) 2237-7036 Personal website: Lobito de río https://sites.google.com/site/lobitoderio/ Institutional website: ICOMVIS http://www.icomvis.una.ac.cr/ [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ___ R-sig-teaching@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-teaching
Re: [R-sig-teaching] Books on R-programming for newbies
Hmmm, others will have their own suggestions, but here are three of the big ones as far as I'm concerned: Burns -- R Inferno (free online), Intermediate Level that has an (almost comprehensive) review of little tricks and quirks Chambers -- Software for Data Analysis (real book), more high-level by the father of S/R but definitely gets you over the hump to true enlightenment Venables Ripley -- S Programming [S is more or less R, but don't worry about that for now] (real book), by two of the big dogs of the S/R world, though a little old at this point, really gets you to the details of things An intro book is a little harder to find: I've heard good things about Matloff's Art of R programming for someone who wants to understand R as a language (rather than a statistical tool if that makes sense) -- I think most of the other intro books will spend more time teaching basic stats than you'd be interested in. R in action is also pretty well received and I think it's in the same vein as Matloff. No promises about either of these: I've only seen them in their proto-forms (both were web presences made into books) and haven't used them myself. Of the other books you note, O'Reily books are pretty uniformly good. Some people like Crawley but the official review on Crawley was pretty scathing; it is big though... There's also copious free documentation online (including the prepackaged intro material, but that's a hair terse) so don't feel pressure to buy a real book -- GNU and all that jazz. You'll get a lot from reading the R-Help and R-SIG-*** [Finance I'd guess] groups (both actively and in archive) but sometimes they can be a little obscure: just note things that catch your interest. Hope that helps, Michael On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 9:13 AM, Dagfinn Rime dagfinn.r...@gmail.com wrote: 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/ ___ R-sig-teaching@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-teaching ___ R-sig-teaching@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-teaching
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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 dagfinn.r...@gmail.com To: r-sig-teaching@r-project.org Date: 15.03.2012 14:12 Subject: [R-sig-teaching] Books on R-programming for newbies Sent by: r-sig-teaching-boun...@r-project.org 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/ ___ R-sig-teaching@r-project.org 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 ___ R-sig-teaching@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-teaching
Re: [R-sig-teaching] Books on R-programming for newbies
Hello Dagfinn, I am teaching R for porgramming purposes to Geography bachelor students. In our course we use Norman Matloff's 'The art of R programming'. Both myself and the students (as far as I know) rate it very highly as it really is an easy read and best of all, it does not confuse the not so statistically inclined as it really focusses on software design rather than statistical scripting. Hope that helps, Tim On 15/3/2012 14:13, Dagfinn Rime wrote: 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/ ___ R-sig-teaching@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-teaching -- # Tim Appelhans Department of Geography Environmental Computer Sciences Philipps Universität Marburg Deutschhausstraße 12 35032 Marburg (Paketpost: 35037 Marburg) Germany Tel +49 (0) 6421 28-25957 ___ R-sig-teaching@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-teaching
Re: [R-sig-teaching] Books on R-programming for newbies
My two cents: For the very basics of programming in R, work through a couple of the free getting started online books here: http://www.r-project.org/other-docs.html To get to more practical production level R, since you're a SAS programmer you might like Muenchen's R for SAS and SPSS users, 2nd ed. I found this book very helpful even though I don't know SAS or SPSS, because it operates at a very sophisticated level. I found that many other intro to R books assume you're relatively new to both programming and data analysi. This books assumes you already know a fair bit about both and just want to learn how to do it in R. There are some good web sites for learning R as well. A few that I go back to regularly are: Quick-R: Home Page Learning R R Tutorial Series R Programming - Wikibooks, open books for an open world Matloff's Art of R Programming, which I've just started reading, seems like a good book for getting to the next level in R programming--how to write integrated scripts, rather than just figuring out how to do lots of individual tasks. There are many other choices, but these will probably get you started on the right track. Once you start feeling comfortable with the basics, R-help and Stackoverflow.com are good places to go when you're trying to figure out how to do something or other and need some help. And since so many people blog about R these days, Google-ing is very helpful as well. Hope that helps. Joel ... Joel Schwartz Senior Consultant Blue Sky Consulting Group www.blueskyconsultinggroup.com 916.203.6309 On Mar 15, 2012, at 6:24 AM, Manuel Spínola wrote: Hi Dagfinn, I suggest: Rob Kabacoff. R in Action. Manning, 2010. Best, Manuel 2012/3/15 Dagfinn Rime dagfinn.r...@gmail.com 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/ ___ R-sig-teaching@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-teaching -- *Manuel Spínola, Ph.D.* Instituto Internacional en Conservación y Manejo de Vida Silvestre Universidad Nacional Apartado 1350-3000 Heredia COSTA RICA mspin...@una.ac.cr mspinol...@gmail.com Teléfono: (506) 2277-3598 Fax: (506) 2237-7036 Personal website: Lobito de río https://sites.google.com/site/lobitoderio/ Institutional website: ICOMVIS http://www.icomvis.una.ac.cr/ [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ___ R-sig-teaching@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-teaching [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ___ R-sig-teaching@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-teaching
