I'd also recommend Paul Murrell's "Introduction to Data Technologies": https://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~paul/ItDT/
Hadley On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 2:11 PM, Jim Callahan <jim.callahan.orlando at gmail.com> wrote: > Books that discuss BOTH R and SQL are a very small subset and assume some > knowledge of both. > R INTRODUCTORY BOOKS > 1. Peter Dalgaard, "Introductory Statistics with R", 2002. > "The book is based upon a set of notes developed for the course in Basic > Statistics for Health Researchers at the Faculty of Health Sciences of the > University of Copenhagen. This course had as its primary target.. students > for the Ph.D. degree in medicine." Intro page viii. > body mass index (BMI) and age of menarche. > 2. Jared Lander, "R for Everyone", 2014. > More modern, but less focused on health and a little more scattershot. > > R AUTHORITATIVE REFERENCE > 1. Brian Ripley and William Venables, "Modern Applied Statistics with S", > 2002. > > Anything by John Chambers, Robert Gentleman or Brian Ripley or any member > of the "R Core Development Team" can be considered authoritative (the stuff > you can footnote without frowns) on R. > > Also, if you are going to use the R mailing list read all of the PDFs that > come with the base installation of R. Its better now, but the R mailing > list used to have a very strong "RTFM" attitude and did not want to explain > anything that was clearly covered in the manuals. Especially read the "R > Import/Export Manual" PDF. > > ADVANCED R (with SQL) > Depends on what you are doing. > If you working with health surveys, > Thomas Lumley's "Complex Surveys" is invaluable!!!! One of Lumley's > examples is the CDC's BRFSS, "The Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System > (BRFSS) is the world's largest, on-going telephone health survey system." > (from CDC website). Which in Lumley's example is: > > - The BRFSS 2007 data as a HUGE (245Mb) SQLite database > <http://r-survey.r-forge.r-project.org/svybook/brfss07.db>. > " > > 1. Thomas Lumley, "Complex Surveys: A Guide to Health Analysis Using R", > http://r-survey.r-forge.r-project.org/svybook/index.html > > On the other hand, if you are dealing with biological data such as trying > to match results from GeneChips with existing reference sources you might > prefer Robert Gentleman's "R Programming for Bioinformatics" especially, > Chapter 8 "Data Technologies". > > 1. Robert Gentleman's "R Programming for Bioinformatics", 2009. > "We begin our discussion by describing a range of tools that have been > implemented in R and that can be used to process and transform data. Next > we discuss the different interfaces to databases that are available, but > focus our discussion on SQLite as it is used extensively within the > Bioconductor Project." page 229 > The databases discussion resumes on page 238, Section 8.4, discusses SQLite > on page 241 including a specific example: > "In the code below we load the SQLite package, initialize a driver and open > a dataase that has been supplied with the RBionf [R] package that > accompanies this volume. The database contains a number of tables that map > between identifers on the Affymetrix HG-U95v2 GeneChip and different > quantities of interest such as GO categories or PubMed IDs (that map > published papers that discuss the corresponding genes). We then list the > tables in that database." > > Sometimes we get tired of reading dry tomes and we prefer something more > chatty and amusing. > > For R and other tools I enjoy reading: > > Cathy O'Neil's and Rachel Schutt's "Doing Data Science: Straight Talk from > the Frontline", 2013. It's an O'Reilly book. > > For SQLite, I enjoy > Michael Owen's, "The Definitive Guide to SQLite", 2006. -- maybe not the > whole book, but the Chapter 4 example page 75 "Foods mentioned in episodes > of the Seinfield sitcom" is a hoot (and turned out to help me solve an real > world problem). > > If you are doing anything beyond Stats 101 classical statistics it helps to > understand the Bayesian bogeyman. > > A fascinating, non-technical, historical account is provided by Sharon > Bertsch McGrayne, in her book "The Theory that would not Die...". > > BAYESIAN STATISTICS (HISTORY) > Sharon Bertsch McGrayne, > "The Theory That Would Not Die > How Bayes' Rule Cracked the Enigma Code, Hunted Down Russian Submarines, > and Emerged Triumphant from Two Centuries of Controversy" > , 2011. > http://yalepress.yale.edu/book.asp?isbn=9780300169690 > > "For the student who is being exposed to Bayesian statistics for the first > time, McGrayne?s book provides a wealth of illustrations to whet his or her > appetite for more. It will broaden and deepen the field of reference of the > more experienced statistician, and the general reader will find an > understandable, well-written, and fascinating account of a scientific field > of great importance today. " > http://www.ams.org/notices/201205/rtx120500657p.pdf > All the more timely with the release of the movie "The Imitation Game", > because Turing & Co. cracked the German Enigma code using Bayesian > statistics. > There few specific "Bayesian" packages in R (an interface to BUGS); but it > lurks in the background of many of them -- any use of the word "prior". > > Hope this helps. > Jim > > On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 11:28 AM, VASILEIOU Eleftheria <E.Vasileiou at > ed.ac.uk >> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I would need to use R for my analysis for my Project and my supervisor >> suggested me to learn the SQL language for R. >> Could you please provide me some resources for learning SQL and R? >> >> >> Thanks in advance, >> Eleftheria >> >> Eleftheria Vasileiou BSc, MPH >> Research Student, Centre for Population Health Sciences >> Room 815, Old Medical School, University of Edinburgh >> >> E.Vasileiou at ed.ac.uk >> >> The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in >> Scotland, with registration number SC005336. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> sqlite-users mailing list >> sqlite-users at mailinglists.sqlite.org >> http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users >> >> > _______________________________________________ > sqlite-users mailing list > sqlite-users at mailinglists.sqlite.org > http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users -- http://had.co.nz/
