[R] Intro to Programming R Book

[Roger Bivand]

On Thu, 24 Aug 2006, Joerg van den Hoff wrote:

> Raphael Fraser wrote:
> > I am new to R and am looking for a book that can help in learning to
> > program in R. I have looked at the R website suggested books but I am
> > still not sure which book best suite my needs. I am interesting in
> > programming, data manipulation not statistics. Any suggestions?

If you know German, then Uwe Ligges' 2005 book "Programmieren mit R" may
be what you are looking for. Some German-speakers I was teaching found it
very useful.

http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,,1-40109-22-26682866-0,00.html

> > 
> > Raphael
> > 
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> 
> 
> "S Programming" by Venables and Ripley (Springer) seems the only(?) one 
> around targeting the language, not it's applications. luckily, it's very 
> good. for the rest (things specific to R, e.g. package development, 
> namespaces etc.) I think one can only resort to the R manuals .
> 
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