Liviu Andronic escribió:
On 3/1/10, Keo Ormsby <keo.orms...@gmail.com> wrote:
Perhaps my biggest problem was that I couldn't (and still haven't) seen
*absolute beginners* documents.
Perhaps http://www.r-tutor.com/? Also recently a webinar on R [2] was
held and it hosts complete course notes and recordings. Otherwise,
there was once a link posted on r-sig-teaching that would probably fit
your needs, but I cannot find it now.
[2] http://www.fort.usgs.gov/brdscience/learnR.htm
[..snip..]
Maybe Rcmdr could help here? It allows performing entry level
statistical analyses, while displaying the complete syntax.
Liviu
Yes, thanks. I will check the webinars.
In the beginning I did bump in to Rcmdr, but since it was a *package*
that had to be downloaded from *CRAN*, and during installation it asked
for a whole lot of options that at the time I had no idea what was meant
by all that. help() always gives a description which is very useful if
you know what you want to do, but words like *Generic function*, or the
ellipsis (...) *further arguments to be passed to other functions*, can
be daunting to the uninitiated. What I wanted to convey is that if you
start from your own non-programmer non-statistician area, and try to go
directly into R, you will quickly find yourself immerse in a lot of
terminology and usability logic that is kind of alien to even proficient
users of web browsers and Office suites. Of course there is a lot of
information out there, many of it very simple indeed, but perhaps what I
was looking for then was not an "R for dummies", but an "R for LAZY
dummies".
By the way, what I meant by the 6 months, was to completely be R
dependent, to not even consider using another software.
Thanks for the links!
Best,
Keo.
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