On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 22:56 -0500, Mark Leeds wrote: > I don't want to bother anyone > with specific questions > because I am a R newbie and > I see that there is TON ( emphasis on > Ton ) of documentation > out there but could > someone just tell me the > best placed to look/read > for learning about ( for R-2-2.1 in Windows ) > > .Rprofile > .REnviron. > .Rdata > > .First function ( analogous to the one in Splus ). > > Analog of Splus Chapter > > Basically, I want to learn how to start R so that > my own source code and various > packages are already available when > I start up and how to make separate .Data ( I used to > do this in Splus with Splus Chapter ) directories etc. > > I am willing to fight through it and try to figure it out > myself but there's so much stuff on the net in terms > of threads etc that I might be helped by knowing the best > place to start to learn. Thanks.
Mark, One of the best places to start looking is actually the R e-mail list Posting Guide, for which there is a link at the bottom of every e-mail that comes through the list: http://www.r-project.org/posting-guide.html Much of what you want to cover is in An Introduction to R, which is available from the menus in the Windows version or online at the main R web site under Manuals. Additional information on your specific questions are available using ?Startup and ?.First from within an R session. For Chapters, see ?save and ?load, which I believe will provide for parallel functionality in a fashion. The main R FAQ: http://cran.r-project.org/doc/FAQ/R-FAQ.html and the R Windows FAQ: http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/rw-FAQ.html are good resources as well. If you are transitioning from S-PLUS, you might want to pay particular attention to section 3.3 of the main R FAQ on the differences between R and S-PLUS. Finally, thanks to Andy Liaw and Jon Baron, there is there RSiteSearch() function, which will enable you to search the e-mail list archives and documentation online from within an R session. See ?RSiteSearch. HTH, Marc Schwartz ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html