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I'd love to see an "R for rubyists/pythonists/...", basically an R tutorial aimed at reasonably experienced programmers which explains what you need to know abo
by mjw 15y ago
I'd love to see an "R for rubyists/pythonists/...", basically an R tutorial aimed at reasonably experienced programmers which explains what you need to know about the quirks of R to properly grok it as a language, how it differs to ones you're familiar with, etc.
As opposed to a tutorial aimed at the "I really just want a recipe to achieve statistical task xyz" crowd.
In particular: every time I delve back into R, I forget how its funky data structures work.
- ahi 15y agoNot sure that's possible. "R in a Nutshell" is 640 pages for a reason.
- noahnoahnoah 15y agoI've always found this to be helpful for programmers coming from other languages: http://www.johndcook.com/R_language_for_programmers.html http://www.johndcook.com/R_language_for_programmers.html (not the author, just a fan)