On 3/1/10, Keo Ormsby <keo.orms...@gmail.com> wrote: > Perhaps my biggest problem was that I couldn't (and still haven't) seen > *absolute beginners* documents. > Perhaps http://www.r-tutor.com/? Also recently a webinar on R [2] was held and it hosts complete course notes and recordings. Otherwise, there was once a link posted on r-sig-teaching that would probably fit your needs, but I cannot find it now. [2] http://www.fort.usgs.gov/brdscience/learnR.htm
> It took me about six months to start using R > for my everyday data analysis, and now I can't imagine life without it! > My problem was that I knew some programming (Java) and had never used a > command line for statistics. All my statistical needs had been accomplished > through the graphical interface of SPSS or similar software (even Excel!). I > have a feeling that almost all "Introduction to R" documents are made for > making the switch from SPSS and SAS scripting, to R. But I have had a very > difficult time using R as an *entry level* statistical scripting language to > Maybe Rcmdr could help here? It allows performing entry level statistical analyses, while displaying the complete syntax. Liviu > help my colleagues (none of us are either programmers nor statisticians, > mostly biology PhDs and a couple of MDs). > I would love to see a text oriented towards someone who has never used > anything but Excel, but realizes that to do science today you have to go > beyond the "Data analysis" toolbar from Excel. > (Plese tell me if you know of any) > Best to all, > Keo. > > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > -- Do you know how to read? http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/xfce4-dict#speed-reader Do you know how to write? http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail ______________________________________________ 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.