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Any thoughts on R in a Nutshell?
by mishmash 16y ago
Any thoughts on R in a Nutshell?
- goodside 16y agoI work in a statistics-related field and use R daily. Most R books emphasize applications for statistics, not R itself; they're written for non-programmers. R in a Nutshell overviews R itself and assumes basic programming experience. I personally prefer this method, since I can just Google for any particular stats functions I need. If you're already a programmer, this is probably the R book you want.
- trioxinSC 16y agoMy background is in SAS and SPSS, but my new job required me to learn R. If you require an absolute beginners guide for R, this book might not be for you. It assumes you have a background in programming and basic statistics. I am about halfway done the book, and found the chapters on graphics and lattices to be very helpful. The one thing that is lacking, at least so far, is a section on formatting output. Most data is shown in raw tables, but for my job I need to feed these into excel. My R toolbox has this book and the built-in R help system. So far, those two things are all I have needed two write my scripts.
- goodside 16y agoLook into the RExcel plugin for Excel. There are other ways to get data between the two programs, but they usually involve importing and exporting CSV files. With RExcel, it's only slightly more complicated than copying and pasting.