Re: [ECOLOG-L] Learning R -- UseR!

2016-05-12 Thread Nathan Brouwer
A book not mentioned yet is Marc Kery’s “Introduction to WinBUGs for Ecologists.” Though the focus is on Bayesian stats and WinBUGs, this book has 2 fabulous features -straight forward ecological examples of all major statistical procedures in R, from t-tests to GLMMs. -simulated data is used

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Learning R -- summary of replies.

2016-05-11 Thread Stefanie Broszeit
Dear Jason et al, The Use R! Series from Springer is a good collection of books all with the aim to explain R in a simple and non-too-jargony way. They are short and not too expensive, here is the website (not only ecology, but you can find your way to those): http://www.springer.com/series/6991?d

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Learning R -- summary of replies.

2016-05-10 Thread Jason Hernandez
Someone requested that I share a summary of replies to my earlier query about useful books for learning R, after finishing _R for Dummies_. Here it is: R. Ben Bolker's "Ecological Models and Data in R" was recommended as a basic ecology-oriented one. Bivand's "Applied Spatial Data Analysis with

[ECOLOG-L] Learning R

2016-04-30 Thread Jason Hernandez
Dear ecologgers: I have been working my way through _R for Dummies_, by Andrie de Vries and Joris Meys. My question is, of all the books out there on R coding, which is the best one for the next level after R for Dummies, from an ecologist's perspective? Jason Hernandez