On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 9:20 AM, Ken H <vicvoncas...@gmail.com> wrote: [snip] > And that should be it, as far as relevant reading > Peter Daalgard's Introductory Statistics with R is very good if you do not > know other programming languages.
I would strongly second this. It is a very nice book. What book to read depends a bit exactly what your goals are---data manipulation? Statistics (and then what kind)? Programming? etc. For statistics beyond Peter Dalgaard's book, I like John Fox's Applied Regression with Companion to Applied Regression (which uses R and is also the 'car' package). I have been pretty happy with Phil Spector's book Data Manipulation with R. For graphics in R I would suggest ggplot2 by Hadley Wickham or lattice by Deepayan Sarkar (they are both books and packages). For programming I would look at S Programming by Venables & Ripley. > Crowleys R Book is the Bible as it were, and is very very good. Electronic > copies are available. The R Book is very large, but it has some problems in my opinion. It uses some styles that are often okay, but can cause problems (e.g., using attach, using function names for data). I would turn elsewhere first. All of the other books I recommended (except Data Manipulation with R) are written by people who also develop and maintain R Core or substantial R packages (i.e., they are experts in what they are talking about). Cheers, Josh -- Joshua Wiley Ph.D. Student, Health Psychology Programmer Analyst II, ATS Statistical Consulting Group University of California, Los Angeles https://joshuawiley.com/ ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
