Re: [R] Recommendations regarding textbooks

2012-03-22 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 1:17 PM, richard willey wrote: > I was hoping to get some advice regarding teaching R in an academic > environment. > > thinks regarding “An R Companion to Applied Regression”. > CAR features an excellent introduction to R programming. Liviu

Re: [R] Recommendations regarding textbooks

2012-03-22 Thread Peter Ehlers
On 2012-03-22 05:17, richard willey wrote: Hello I was hoping to get some advice regarding teaching R in an academic environment. What are the best choices with respect to textbooks? When this question was asked a few years back, people were primarily recommending “Modern Applied Statistics wi

Re: [R] Recommendations regarding textbooks

2012-03-22 Thread R. Michael Weylandt
What level are you looking to teach? MASS is fantastic but very terse; it presumes a good foundation in statistics and deals mainly with the computational aspects. My guess would be that this book would only really be suitable for a class with a good pre-existing background knowledge who are willi

[R] Recommendations regarding textbooks

2012-03-22 Thread richard willey
Hello I was hoping to get some advice regarding teaching R in an academic environment. What are the best choices with respect to textbooks? When this question was asked a few years back, people were primarily recommending “Modern Applied Statistics with S” and “Introductory Statistics with R” as