Re: [R] Learning R

2009-12-01 Thread Dr. Thomas W. MacFarland
Hi Julia: I am sure that you will find many useful resources as you attempt to learn R. If time permits, please look at the Tegrity-based video that I’ve prepared for my students: http://tegrity1.acast.nova.edu/tegrityUtils/GetCourseListing.aspx?Session_In

Re: [R] Learning R

2009-11-30 Thread Paul Hiemstra
Hi Julia, I would really recommend reading a book on R. A good option might by the Introductory statistics with R by Peter Dalgaard, or the MASS (Modern Applied Statistics with S) book. The advantage of a book is that it presents a coherent overview, saving you time to wade through the

Re: [R] Learning R

2009-11-30 Thread Hrishi Mittal
These are some good resources for learning R: Quick-R - http://www.statmethods.net/ From Data to Graphics - http://zoonek2.free.fr/UNIX/48_R/03.html UCLA Resources to help you learn and use R - http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/r/ Good luck! -- View this message in context:

Re: [R] Learning R

2009-11-30 Thread Esmail
Julia Cains wrote: Dear R helpers, Almost 15 days back I have become member of this very active and wonderful group. So far I have been only raising queries and in turn got them solved too and I really thank for the spirit this group member show when it comes to the guidance. I wish to

Re: [R] Learning R

2009-11-30 Thread Adaikalavan Ramasamy
Dear Julia, Welcome. It is good that you wish to learn more about R. R has certainly become very vast in the last few years. Do you wish to learn R for a particular reason (financial analyses, multivariate, prediction/classification, genetics)? You might get more targeted reading materials,

Re: [R] Learning R

2009-11-30 Thread Ben Seligman
Hi Julia, I'm also a newcomer to R and to this listserv (in the past two weeks). One book that was recommended to me, and has been extraordinarily helpful in learning how to really make use of R, is A Beginner's Guide to R, which focuses on data entry/import, data manipulation, functions, and

Re: [R] Learning R

2009-11-30 Thread Benton, Paul
Julia, I can vouch for the 'Statistical Analysis in R'. Very good book, I learnt R from it. The other one to look at is Spoetry. It solves a lot of problem for me. Paul http://www.burns-stat.com/pages/spoetry.html On 30 Nov 2009, at 17:17, Ben Seligman wrote: Hi Julia, I'm also a

Re: [R] Learning R

2009-11-30 Thread Johannes Huesing
Esmail esmail...@gmail.com [Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 01:07:15PM CET]: ps: Just checked, 'R in a Nutshell': http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596801717 release date dec 2009/jan 2010 You can't really judge a book by its cover, and in this case not even the cover is presented to us. But

Re: [R] Learning R

2009-11-30 Thread DispersionMap
Data Analysis and Graphics Using R - An Example-Based Approach John Maindonald and John Braun 2nd edn, Cambridge University Press, January 2007 susan jacobs wrote: Hi, im working in R but honestly i don t know how to apply the formulas in my problem, can someone give some help?

Re: [R] Learning R

2009-11-30 Thread susan jacobs
Hi, im working in R but honestly i don t know how to apply the formulas in my problem, can someone give some help? I already learn how we use the formulas but im not understanding the main issue in my problem. Johannes Huesing wrote: Esmail esmail...@gmail.com [Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at

[R] Learning R

2009-11-29 Thread Julia Cains
Dear R helpers, Almost 15 days back I have become member of this very active and wonderful group. So far I have been only raising  queries and in turn got them solved too and I really thank for the spirit this group member show when it comes to the guidance. I wish to learn R language and I

Re: [R] Learning R

2009-11-29 Thread Meyners, Michael, LAUSANNE, AppliedMathematics
requirements. HTH, Michael -Original Message- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Julia Cains Sent: Montag, 30. November 2009 08:23 To: r-help@r-project.org Subject: [R] Learning R Dear R helpers, Almost 15 days back I have become

Re: [R] Learning R - View datasets

2009-11-27 Thread Mario Valle
. Guo-Hao Huang -- From: Brock Tibert btibe...@yahoo.com Sent: Friday, November 27, 2009 12:46 PM To: r-help@r-project.org Subject: [R] Learning R - View datasets Hi All, I am making a serious effort to try to learn R

Re: [R] Learning R - View datasets

2009-11-27 Thread guohao.huang
: Friday, November 27, 2009 4:00 PM To: guohao.hu...@gmail.com Cc: Brock Tibert btibe...@yahoo.com; r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] Learning R - View datasets guohao.hu...@gmail.com wrote: Please check the following pdf file. http://tw.nextmedia.com/applenews/article/art_id/32119622/IssueID

Re: [R] Learning R - View datasets

2009-11-27 Thread Wincent
There are different ways to inspect the conent of a data frame. For example, View(CO2) 2009/11/27 Brock Tibert btibe...@yahoo.com: Hi All, I am making a serious effort to try to learn R, but one hurdle I am facing is that I need to see the data as I walk through the examples in the

Re: [R] Learning R - View datasets

2009-11-27 Thread Paul Hiemstra
Brock Tibert wrote: Hi All, I am making a serious effort to try to learn R, but one hurdle I am facing is that I need to see the data as I walk through the examples in the packages. For instance, many examples on the web start by a command like data(wines). How can I actually view what the

Re: [R] Learning R - View datasets

2009-11-27 Thread Liviu Andronic
Hello On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 4:46 AM, Brock Tibert btibe...@yahoo.com wrote: In short, I know that data() lists all of the available datasets, data(wines) will load the dataset wines, but how can I look at the raw data? See this [1]. [1]

Re: [R] Learning R - View datasets

2009-11-27 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Try this: # each of these three show entire data set wines dput(wines) View(wines) # get help ?wines # various info on data set head(wines) tail(wines) summary(wines) str(wines) class(wines) dim(wines) # plotting plot(wines) # for a better plot see the example at the bottom of ?wines On Thu,

Re: [R] Learning R - View datasets

2009-11-27 Thread ojal john owino
Hi Brock, Have you tried View() ? Regards. On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 7:46 AM, Brock Tibert btibe...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi All, I am making a serious effort to try to learn R, but one hurdle I am facing is that I need to see the data as I walk through the examples in the packages. For

[R] Learning R - View datasets

2009-11-26 Thread Brock Tibert
Hi All, I am making a serious effort to try to learn R, but one hurdle I am facing is that I need to see the data as I walk through the examples in the packages. For instance, many examples on the web start by a command like data(wines). How can I actually view what the dataset looks like

Re: [R] Learning R - View datasets

2009-11-26 Thread guohao.huang
: [R] Learning R - View datasets Hi All, I am making a serious effort to try to learn R, but one hurdle I am facing is that I need to see the data as I walk through the examples in the packages. For instance, many examples on the web start by a command like data(wines). How can I actually view

Re: [R] learning R

2009-02-25 Thread markleeds
David, Wacek: Just so everyone knows, I just looked and this is explained quite clearly in the R Language Reference manual, very similarly to what Wacek did below. On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 3:42 AM, Wacek Kusnierczyk wrote: David Winsemius wrote: On Feb 24, 2009, at 11:36 PM, Fuchs Ira

Re: [R] learning R

2009-02-25 Thread Petr PIKAL
Hi r-help-boun...@r-project.org napsal dne 25.02.2009 06:18:04: Hi Ira: For your first question, under the hood of R, names- is actually a function so , when you do that, you need to say names(a)[2] rather than names(a[2]). why this is is tricky and I wouldn't do it justice if i tried

Re: [R] learning R

2009-02-25 Thread Wacek Kusnierczyk
markle...@verizon.net wrote: David, Wacek: Just so everyone knows, I just looked and this is explained quite clearly in the R Language Reference manual, very similarly to what Wacek did below. thanks, that's good, because i made it up following the page quoted by david, and if i'm flamed for

Re: [R] learning R

2009-02-25 Thread Wacek Kusnierczyk
a quick follow-up: e = new.env() e$a = 1 names(e) # NULL names(e) = 'a' # error in names(e) = foo : names() applied to a non-vector this is surprising. names(e) 'works', there is no complaint, but when names- is used, the error is about the use of names, not names-.

Re: [R] learning R

2009-02-25 Thread Berwin A Turlach
On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 09:57:36 +0100 Wacek Kusnierczyk waclaw.marcin.kusnierc...@idi.ntnu.no wrote: markle...@verizon.net wrote: David, Wacek: Just so everyone knows, I just looked and this is explained quite clearly in the R Language Reference manual, very similarly to what Wacek did

Re: [R] learning R

2009-02-25 Thread Wacek Kusnierczyk
Berwin A Turlach wrote: On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 09:57:36 +0100 Wacek Kusnierczyk waclaw.marcin.kusnierc...@idi.ntnu.no wrote: markle...@verizon.net wrote: David, Wacek: Just so everyone knows, I just looked and this is explained quite clearly in the R Language Reference manual, very

Re: [R] learning R

2009-02-25 Thread markleeds
Hi Wacek: Somewhere I remember reading that environments have functionality like lists EXCEPT for the names part. IIRC, I think that I read this in the R Language Reference manual also. On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 4:32 AM, Wacek Kusnierczyk wrote: a quick follow-up: e = new.env()

Re: [R] learning R

2009-02-25 Thread markleeds
Thanks Berwin. You're correct in that I meant the R Language Definition. Well, it may be a draft but I read it for the first time a few months ago and it was very enlightening so, whether it's a draft or not, I highly recommend it. ( but not for total beginners. The R-intro is better for a

[R] learning R

2009-02-24 Thread Fuchs Ira
I was wondering why the following doesn't work: a=c(1,2) names(a)=c(one,two) a one two 1 2 names(a[2]) [1] two names(a[2])=too names(a) [1] one two a one two 1 2 I must not be understanding some basic concept here. Why doesn't the 2nd name change to too? also unrelated: if I

Re: [R] learning R

2009-02-24 Thread David Winsemius
On Feb 24, 2009, at 11:36 PM, Fuchs Ira wrote: I was wondering why the following doesn't work: a=c(1,2) names(a)=c(one,two) a one two 1 2 names(a[2]) [1] two names(a[2])=too names(a) [1] one two a one two 1 2 I must not be understanding some basic concept here. Why doesn't the

Re: [R] learning R

2009-02-24 Thread David Winsemius
On Feb 25, 2009, at 12:12 AM, David Winsemius wrote: On Feb 24, 2009, at 11:36 PM, Fuchs Ira wrote: also unrelated: if I have two vectors and I want to combine them to form a matrix ,is cbind (or rbind) the most direct way to do this? e.g. x=c(1,2,3) y=c(3,4,5) z=rbind(x,y)