Re: [R] [OT] book on Linux scripting

2009-09-03 Thread Noah Silverman
Hi, There are good books by O'Reilly for both sed and awk. That said, neither is what I would call a "complete" scripting language. Without knowing the details of your requirements, I STRONGLY suggest that you learn perl. It allows you do almost anything with data, fetch web pages, access a

Re: [R] [OT] book on Linux scripting

2009-09-02 Thread Noah Silverman
Erin, Linux supports many scripting languages. Which language are you interested in: Perl, PHP, Bash, Python, etc??? -- Noah On 9/2/09 10:35 PM, Erin Hodgess wrote: > Dear R People: > > I know that this is off topic, but could anyone recommend a good book > on Linux scripting please? > > Any he

[R] [OT] book on Linux scripting

2009-09-02 Thread Erin Hodgess
Dear R People: I know that this is off topic, but could anyone recommend a good book on Linux scripting please? Any help would be much appreciated! Thanks, Erin -- Erin Hodgess Associate Professor Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences University of Houston - Downtown mailto: erinm.