[R] The R Book - great resource for R beginners

[Uwe Ligges]

Tom La Bone wrote:
> IMHO "The R Book" is far better than indicated in that review and should be
> near the top of the list for beginners looking for a "manual" for R.

We can start a big war about that book now, but we should discuss useful 
things instead. I am currently reviewing this book for another journal 
and I think the review in R News is very well pointed.

So, there are two very different opinions about the book among readers 
of this list, obviously. And if the facts given in the available review 
in R News do not convince readers of R-help, I'd suggest to take a look 
into the book before buying it.

Best,
Uwe Ligges




> Tom
> 
> 
> Katharine Mullen wrote:
>> It was reviewed in the most recent R News
>> (http://www.r-project.org/doc/Rnews/Rnews_2007-2.pdf).
>>
>> On Thu, 29 Nov 2007, Robert Harris wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I've recently discovered "The R Book" by Micheal J. Crawley. I am new to
>>> R and I am finding it incredibly useful.
>>>
>>> With my background in math and programming, I expected that I would be
>>> able to pick it up quickly, but even after reading several other intro
>>> books, I found it was still hard to figure out how to get data into R and
>>> how dataframes relate to vectors and actually doing statistics with R.
>>>
>>> But, The R Book is well written and gives plenty of examples and explains
>>> many of the often used tools within R. It's both a tutorial and a
>>> relatively advanced reference book for R, very accessible to a beginner
>>> like me.
>>>
>>> Just curious: What have been the experiences of others who have used The
>>> R Book?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Bob Harris
>>>
>>>
>>>
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