On Sun, 26 Oct 2003, Tom Hopper wrote: > My question is this: is there a quick-start guide or introductory > tutorial for someone with my background? While there seems to be quite > a lot of documentation on R, it all seems directed at people with a > different background. It's too basic, or too advanced, but doesn't > address someone reasonably familiar with statistics who just needs to > change his work habits.
Not knowing your exact background, it is difficult to suggest one. I'd say that An Introduction to R manual from CRAN is a good start. Alternatively, Venables and Ripley's Modern Applied Statistics with S is an excellent source -- perhaps the best in the field. Peter Dalgaard's Introductory Statistics with R may also be a good choice. At the moment, Steven Miller and I are planning on co-authoring a book on using R, targetted at experience statisticians who have little or no experience with R. The current ideas are at http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~kwan022/pub/R/RBook/ . We are planning on finishing it by Feb/March 2004 -- which may be too late for you. Once it is finished we will submit it to CRAN. -- Cheers, Kevin --------------------------------------------------------------- Ko-Kang Kevin Wang Master of Science (MSc) Student SLC Tutor and Lab Demonstrator Department of Statistics University of Auckland New Zealand Homepage: http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~kwan022 Ph: 373-7599 x88475 (City) x88480 (Tamaki) ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
