Re: [R] R Book Advice Needed

2007-06-14 Thread Alain Reymond
Cody, I plan to use it in life sciences. We use of course basic descriptive statistics but also classification using ACP and CAH (French abbreviation for Principal Component Analysis and Hierarchical Cluster Analysis). We also use logistic regression for classifying some results of clinical

Re: [R] R Book Advice Needed

2007-06-14 Thread Vincent Goulet
Alain, I didn't notice you can read French when I first saw your message. If you want to start learning R by the programming language, you might appreciate my document Introduction à la programmation en S, available in the Contributed documentation - Other languages - French on CRAN. The

Re: [R] R Book Advice Needed

2007-06-13 Thread ngottlieb
-Original Message- From: Roland Rau [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 10:14 AM To: Gottlieb, Neil Cc: R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: Re: [R] R Book Advice Needed Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am new to using R and would appreciate some advice on which books

Re: [R] R Book Advice Needed

2007-06-13 Thread Roland Rau
Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am new to using R and would appreciate some advice on which books to start with to get up to speed on using R. My Background: 1-C# programmer. 2-Programmed directly using IMSL (Now Visual Numerics). 3- Used in past SPSS and Statistica. I put together a

Re: [R] R Book Advice Needed

2007-06-13 Thread ngottlieb
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alain Reymond Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 6:23 PM To: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: Re: [R] R Book Advice Needed [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : I am new to using R and would appreciate some advice on which books to start with to get up

Re: [R] R Book Advice Needed

2007-06-13 Thread ngottlieb
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 6:36 PM To: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: Re: [R] R Book Advice Needed Alain, Can you tell us what you plan to use R for? Regards, -Cody [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : I am new to using R

Re: [R] R Book Advice Needed

2007-06-13 Thread Roland Rau
Hi Neil, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At this point, want to jump in avoiding all the Mathematical proofs and just apply R and the packages for what I want to do. I'd still recommend Venables/Ripley: Modern Applied Statistics with S (or often abbrev. MASS, which is also name of the package

Re: [R] R Book Advice Needed

2007-06-13 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Roland Rau wrote: Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am new to using R and would appreciate some advice on which books to start with to get up to speed on using R. My Background: 1-C# programmer. 2-Programmed directly using IMSL (Now Visual Numerics). 3- Used in past SPSS and Statistica.

Re: [R] R Book Advice Needed

2007-06-13 Thread ngottlieb
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 10:40 AM To: Gottlieb, Neil Cc: R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: Re: [R] R Book Advice Needed Hi Neil, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At this point, want to jump in avoiding all the Mathematical proofs and just apply R and the packages for what I want

Re: [R] R Book Advice Needed

2007-06-13 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
There are some online sources that you might find useful. You could get started on those while you decide what books to get: - CRAN contributed documentation http://cran.r-project.org/other-docs.html - S Poetry http://www.burns-stat.com/pages/spoetry.html - Zoonekynd book

Re: [R] R Book Advice Needed

2007-06-13 Thread ngottlieb
, Neil Subject: Re: [R] R Book Advice Needed Neil, 'factor.model.stat' is a part of POP, which is an R package (that runs under S-PLUS as well). We've made 'factor.model.stat' public domain so you don't have to have POP in order to use it. The version of 'factor.model.stat' in the Public Domain

[R] R Book Advice Needed

2007-06-12 Thread ngottlieb
I am new to using R and would appreciate some advice on which books to start with to get up to speed on using R. My Background: 1-C# programmer. 2-Programmed directly using IMSL (Now Visual Numerics). 3- Used in past SPSS and Statistica. I put together a list but would like to pick the best of

Re: [R] R Book Advice Needed

2007-06-12 Thread Alain Reymond
[EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : I am new to using R and would appreciate some advice on which books to start with to get up to speed on using R. My Background: 1-C# programmer. 2-Programmed directly using IMSL (Now Visual Numerics). 3- Used in past SPSS and Statistica. I put together a list

Re: [R] R Book Advice Needed

2007-06-12 Thread Cody_Hamilton
Alain, Can you tell us what you plan to use R for? Regards, -Cody [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : I am new to using R and would appreciate some advice on which books to start with to get up to speed on using R. My Background: 1-C# programmer. 2-Programmed directly using IMSL (Now Visual

Re: [R] R book advice

2007-02-16 Thread Ramon Diaz-Uriarte
Dear Paul, You might want to add Everitt Hothorn's A Handbook of Statistical Analyses Using R. If I had to recommend just one book it'd be this one. My own (i.e., highly subjective) suggestion, if you can afford two books, would be to first go through Dalgaard's and then through Everitt

[R] R book advice

2007-02-15 Thread Paul Lynch
I'm looking for a book for someone completely ignorant of statistics who wishes to learn both statistics and R. I've found three possibilities, one by Verzani (Using R for Introductory Statistics), one by Crawley (Statistics: An Introduction using R), and one by Dalgaard (Introductory Statistics

Re: [R] R book advice

2007-02-15 Thread Charles Annis, P.E.
6:35 PM To: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: [R] R book advice I'm looking for a book for someone completely ignorant of statistics who wishes to learn both statistics and R. I've found three possibilities, one by Verzani (Using R for Introductory Statistics), one by Crawley (Statistics

Re: [R] R book advice

2007-02-15 Thread Jim Porzak
Hi Paul, All three are excellent choices, so you won't go wrong with random choice. Here is your first R lesson: RBooks - c(Verzani, Crawley, Dalgaard) sample(RBooks, 1) Seriously, I expect you will end up with all three. Here are my mini-reviews (in order of publication) Peter Dalgaard's

[R] R book

2003-09-11 Thread Arne.Muller
Hi All, I'd be interested in your opinions of the book Introductory Statistics with R by Peter Dalgaard Does it well describe the R object concept, the language itself and statistical aspects (I am not a statistician)? thanks for your opinion, Arne

Re: [R] R book

2003-09-11 Thread Jason Turner
On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 03:09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I'd be interested in your opinions of the book Introductory Statistics with R by Peter Dalgaard Does it well describe the R object concept, the language itself and statistical aspects (I am not a statistician)? The title