My 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

My 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.