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Baller

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Hey guys,
I am working on something that requires the use of R, and I am having a tough time understanding how to do a few things. Anyone know of a good manuel/ textbook either online or not?
I know the sofware site has a manual with it, but I don't like it.
Anyone know of anything else that can help me?
Thanks a lot
 
Baller said:
Hey guys,
I am working on something that requires the use of R, and I am having a tough time understanding how to do a few things. Anyone know of a good manuel/ textbook either online or not?
I know the sofware site has a manual with it, but I don't like it.
Anyone know of anything else that can help me?
Thanks a lot
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Hi @Baller. I think I have something that helps you.

http://www.amazon.com/Handbook-Statistical-Analyses-Using/dp/1584885394
http://www.amazon.com/Handbook-Statistical-Analyses-Using-Second/dp/1420079336

I found these books at my university library. Those should be helpful.
 
 
Tsotne said:
Have you seen the contents? What specifically don't you like? Cover?
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Not only I have seen the content, I used it when I first started in my previous job. I owned the second edition. My ex-boss has the first one. I don't find it as complete as the links I mentioned.
 
alain said:
Not only I have seen the content, I used it when I first started in my previous job. I owned the second edition. My ex-boss has the first one. I don't find it as complete as the links I mentioned.
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Ok depends. I don't know R either. I just saw the books at the university library and they only get books on special order.
 
alain said:
Depends on what? are you recommending those books because you saw them couple of times?
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It is used at my university. The library obtains books on special orders. So why should I expect that they are ordering them just for the sake of price? (the prices of your and my pointed books are almost the same). So there should be some rationale in buying.
 
Tsotne said:
It is used at my university. The library obtains books on special orders. So why should I expect that they are ordering them just for the sake of price? (the prices of your and my pointed books are almost the same). So there should be some rationale in buying.
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Libraries are full of second-rate and third-rate books. You have to be careful in recommending books -- for the individual there is a big outlay involved. When Alain recommended "Baseball Hacks," I went and bought it, secure in the knowledge that he knows what he's talking about.
 
Lol ....just day before yesterday my project manager asked the team if someone wanted to register for R classes .... and I was wondering what significance did R have .... and shortly afterwards we have a thread here on R ...... :)
 
bigbadwolf said:
Libraries are full of second-rate and third-rate books. You have to be careful in recommending books -- for the individual there is a big outlay involved. When Alain recommended "Baseball Hacks," I went and bought it, secure in the knowledge that he knows what he's talking about.
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same here.. I bought the Baseball Hacks books and I have already picked up some SQL / R tricks .
@Tsotne Please only recommend books you have read or studied with. If everyone recommended books they saw in passing on a library shelf , don't you think that'll have little or no credibility here.
 
Andy Nguyen said:
I think tsotne is trying to be helpful to anyone and answering everything he can here. I, for one, appreciate his help but I believe he does not have to overextend himself. It may have an opposite effect and in the long term will dilute the value of his posts.
Remember "strive for quality, not quantity".
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Andy I agree with you. I had a PDF format (not copyright) of this book obtained from the library I was referring to and I sent him on mail. So let him check and evaluate himself. I think it was correct. Of course I will not encourage anyone purchase something I know nothing about. I'm not aware of R, I sent him PDF including some contents and maybe he finds the solution for the particular problem he was talking about.
 
Baller said:
Hey guys,
I am working on something that requires the use of R, and I am having a tough time understanding how to do a few things. Anyone know of a good manuel/ textbook either online or not?
I know the sofware site has a manual with it, but I don't like it.
Anyone know of anything else that can help me?
Thanks a lot
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If you prefer shorter and problem specific books you should take a look at the "Use R!" series by springer http://www.springer.com/series/6991?detailsPage=titles these are domain specific books with, usually, no more than 300 pages each. I read "Analysis of integrated and co integrated time series with R", and its fairly useful.
 
The UseR! series is great. I have most of the books in the series but it becomes expensive to have them all. In the series, each book is targeted to specific field.
 
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