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Top 14 R posts of 2010 (from over 140 R blogs)
- EzGraphs 16y agoYou do a great job Tal - keep up the good work.
- TalGalili 16y agoThank you :)
- srean 16y agoI have been spoiled by the K&R tradition of programming books and this has made it hard for me to pick up R. When I want to pick up a language from a book what I look for in the very first place is a presentation of its lexical structure, data types, expressions, control structures etc. The R books that I have looked at do not seem to follow the convention. They usually start with a collection of (usually quite elementary) statistical problems and intersperse it with code. Unable to find a distilled description of the language in a single location, I invariably get irritated and give up. I know, I really should be more persistent. I understand that the language is primarily designed for statisticians, but it would be good to have a book for those who are interested in it as a programming language. I am sure there is a book like that, just that I haven't found it/them. If anyone has, would love to hear about it. Maybe "R in a nutshell" is the one, though I haven't checked it out yet.
- revorad 16y agoHave you seen these? http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/~matloff/R/RProg.pdf http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/~matloff/R/RProg.pdf http://www.johndcook.com/R_language_for_programmers.html http://www.johndcook.com/R_language_for_programmers.html http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/S/Spoetry/Tutor/R_inferno.pdf http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/S/Spoetry/Tutor/R_inferno.pdf
- srean 16y agoThanks, that was helpful. Ideally I would like a book but lacking that these should do. I was aware of the first two but not the third.
- revorad 16y agoHadley Wickham, author of ggplot2, is also working on an R wiki - https://github.com/hadley/devtools/wiki https://github.com/hadley/devtools/wiki. If his package documentation is anything to go by, it will be top quality.