Summary: [R] Wanted: online Introduction to R

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

Clive Jenkins <clive.jenkins at clara.net> writes:

> An excellent on-line book for the more advanced reader, especially
> chapters 14 and 15 that deal with Statistics and Data Modeling:
> "Numerical Recipes in C: the Art of Scientific Computing" (ISBN
> 0-521-43108-5) Copyright (C) 1988-1992 by Cambridge University Press. A
> Fortran version is also available, and both exist in PostScript and PDF.
> http://www.ulib.org/webRoot/Books/Numerical_Recipes/

Um, not to put too fine a point on it: That is not a book I'd
recommend, and particularly not for the statistics sections. It's a
reasonable introductory text to numerical analysis subjects, but
according to people who really know the stuff, it is not to be trusted
in the details (there's an online reference to the criticism, but I
can't remember it offhand), and their software licencing is.... (don't
get me started!)

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