[R] help

[David Winsemius]

On Oct 23, 2010, at 4:13 AM, Liviu Andronic wrote:

> Hello
>
> On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Mastaki Kambale <jkmastaki at hotmail.com 
> > wrote:
>>
>> Dears R
>> I am a self taught novice user of R. I begin to understand its  
>> philosophy and some basics like objects, vectors, arrays, lists  
>> etc...I still am not able to manipulate variables (objects!) in  
>> dataframes (objects also !!!) already imported from my usual  
>> statistical package (stata 10/SE) despite carefull lecture of some  
>> good books (R Introduction, R Book of Crowley etc...). How must I  
>> proceed in order to go over this ostacle?
>>
> If I understand correctly, you have trouble importing Stata files.
> Have you tried library(Rcmdr), Data > Import > Stata ? I think that
> JGR and Rattle also provide some graphical facilities for this.

That wasn't what I understood him to be asking, but rather how to  
create new variables within existing dataframes. My suggestion would  
be to work with the examples on the help(with) and help(transform)  
pages.

-- 
David