Re: [R] Fw: How to learn R language?

2008-08-28 Thread Graham Smith
While agreeing with how good the texts that have been suggested are, the questions to me (language + systematic) suggests Braun and Murdoch A first course in statistical programming or/and Chambers Software for data analysis: programming with R These would seem to take you through developing

[R] Fw: How to learn R language?

2008-08-27 Thread saggak
--- On Wed, 27/8/08, saggak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: saggak [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: How to learn R language? To: r-help@r-project.org Date: Wednesday, 27 August, 2008, 3:37 PM Hi! I am a post graduate in Statistics. I want to learn R language, but am very confused as to how to

Re: [R] Fw: How to learn R language?

2008-08-27 Thread stephen sefick
I am sure that there are as many ways as people, but this is what I did. MASS 4, Simple R (internet), and this list. I taught myself and it may have been easier to have a guide as this would have cut the learning curve down, but this is not essential. Find out what you need to do, do the

Re: [R] Fw: How to learn R language?

2008-08-27 Thread Peter Dalgaard
saggak wrote: Hi! I am a post graduate in Statistics. I want to learn R language, but am very confused as to how to begin systematically. I need to learn R language from Statistics point of view e.g. I need to fit distributions to data or run regression analysis etc. No doubt there are so

Re: [R] Fw: How to learn R language?

2008-08-27 Thread John Kane
I'm not a statistician so my approach may not make sense for you but I'd suggests having a look at Bob Muenchen's R for SAS and SPSS users in pdf form (very useful) or his new book with the same title (which I have not seen yet) for a start. http://rforsasandspssusers.com/ If you want some

Re: [R] Fw: How to learn R language?

2008-08-27 Thread Ajay ohri
- go with Bob and Peter's book. Too many sources can be confusing. - Join the list, create filters for keywords of your specialty (like from R -Help ) contains regression. - Try use it for a live project . Let the R begin Ajay On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 7:46 PM, John Kane [EMAIL

Re: [R] Fw: How to learn R language?

2008-08-27 Thread Roland Rau
Ajay ohri wrote: - go with Bob and Peter's book. Too many sources can be confusing. - Join the list, create filters for keywords of your specialty (like from R -Help ) contains regression. - Try use it for a live project . I think this is really very good advice: - 2 books (I would