Patrick Burns wrote: > > * What were your biggest misconceptions or > stumbling blocks to getting up and running > with R? >
R was the first scripting language that I *really* invested time in learning. Prior to R I had a few years experience programming in Fortran and had worked on a few projects using Matlab. Because most of my programming experience was with Fortran, the toughest thing to get my head around was definitely lexical scoping and that unlike Fortran subroutines, R function results had to be assigned to something in order to persist outside of the function. Patrick Burns wrote: > > * What documents helped you the most in this > initial phase? > Definitely the "An Introduction to R" manual that ships with the core distribution. It helped me translate my knowledge of programming concepts to the R language very quickly. Patrick Burns wrote: > > I especially want to hear from people who are > lazy and impatient. > > Feel free to write to me off-list. Definitely > write off-list if you are just confirming what > has been said on-list. > > -- > Patrick Burns > -- View this message in context: http://n4.nabble.com/two-questions-for-R-beginners-tp1569384p1569901.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ 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.