Re: [R] First read

2011-11-24 Thread Patrick Burns
Bert, Your laziness is well founded -- it is not on CRAN, you have to go all the way over to another website. And thanks for the kind words (even though we Europeans are free to be ingrates today). Pat On 24/11/2011 14:23, Bert Gunter wrote: Pat: 1. Thank you for this. Having not read your t

Re: [R] First read (was: Re: Looping and paste)

2011-11-24 Thread Bert Gunter
Pat: 1. Thank you for this. Having not read your tutorial, but based on what I know of your other efforts, I am sure that you are correct. Is there a link to this on CRAN somewhere so I can refer to it in future (too lazy to search myself)? 2. Thank you also for your continuing contributions to R

Re: [R] First read (was: Re: Looping and paste)

2011-11-24 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 9:27 AM, Patrick Burns wrote: > It's very seldom that I disagree with > Bert, but here is one time. > > I don't think "An Introduction to R" is > a suitable first read for people with > little computational experience. > I must agree with Patrick here. The 'Intro to R' may

[R] First read (was: Re: Looping and paste)

2011-11-24 Thread Patrick Burns
It's very seldom that I disagree with Bert, but here is one time. I don't think "An Introduction to R" is a suitable first read for people with little computational experience. Better (I modestly suggest) would be: http://www.burns-stat.com/pages/Tutor/hints_R_begin.html which includes some ot