There are also R reference cards and other quick- and kick-starting manuals, mentioned in the documentation.
Ray Kiddy-2 wrote: > > There is no section in the FAQ equivalent to "Using R". The "R Basics" is > too > basic. I would say it addresses "meta-R" questions, such as installing. > > I had a FAQ that I would think would be a basic "Using R" question, > namely: "How > does one generate random numbers?". It is actually non-trivial to answer > this if > one is new to R, as there are too many hits for "Random" and they dive too > deeply. > > My answer to this FAQ would be: > > In order to generate random numbers, there are "r" methods for every > distribution. Distributions include Uniform (runif), Binomial (rbinom), > Normal > (rnorm), Cauchy (rcauchy), Chi Square (rchisq), Exponential (rexp), Gamma > (rgamma), and many more. > > By the way, the R program itself is really badly in need of an > "appropos()" to > go alongside "help()". Perhaps "help()" can be renamed to "hunt()" or > "huntAndPeck()". > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/section-needed-in-FAQ---Using-R-%28PR-9698%29-tf3788564.html#a10717487 Sent from the R devel mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel