Like all learning- you have to learn how to think like the people that create: language, poem, song, etc. In my own learning curve I have found that I am too often popping emails off to the list when in an hour or so I can figure out what was troubling me (using the provided examples). This may be a documentation issues or it may be that the R project is populated by the intelligent (myself excluded), and the only way to augment my own intelligence is to figure it out. With all of this said, R is not intuitive at first, but the logic is becoming easier for me as I plug away. I am not sure whether the documentation is at fault or my biology brain. German was a whole lot easier than R, but everybody knows how to talk to other people- not everybody knows how to talk to computers. R is open source which is good for science, and enough documentation is there to get the underlying theory behind the algorithm- it is "figuroutable" and transparent so that methodology and results can be validated or falsified by the curious. I offer any assistance in documentation remediation if it is deemed useful. to the stubborn go the spoils
Stephen On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 8:20 PM, esmail bonakdarian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank you Rob, I just downloaded it and it looks very useful. > > In the meantime I think I solved my immediate problem (and while > pluggin' away also deepened my understanding - or so I will at least > claim :-) > > Esmail > > > I don't know if you will find this helpful, but one of the better online > > chapters on R Data Objects that I've found is by Tomas Aragon > > and Wayne Enanoria. Among other nice attributes it has some tables that > > summarize improtant functions for working with different data objects. > > The URL is: > > http://www.medepi.net/epir/epir_chap02.pdf > > > > > > Rob Baer > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Pack up or back upuse SkyDrive to transfer files or keep extra copies. > Learn how. > > sh_skydrive_packup_042008 > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > -- Let's not spend our time and resources thinking about things that are so little or so large that all they really do for us is puff us up and make us feel like gods. We are mammals, and have not exhausted the annoying little problems of being mammals. -K. Mullis [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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