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Romain Francois francoisromain at free.fr
Wed Feb 2 15:32:18 CET 2005


Hello,

The MASS book (see bibtex below) is great. It covers all you need to 
start with R and to become a wizaRd.

Romain


  @Book{,
    title = {Modern Applied Statistics with S},
    author = {W. N. Venables and B. D. Ripley},
    publisher = {Springer},
    edition = {Fourth},
    address = {New York},
    year = {2002},
    note = {ISBN 0-387-95457-0},
    url = {http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/MASS4},
  }


Le 02.02.2005 04:17, Brett Stansfield a écrit :

>can you recommend a good manual for R that starts with a data set and gives
>demonstrations on what can be done using R? I downloadedR Langauage
>definition and An introduction to R but haven't found them overly useful.
>I'd really like to be able to follow some tutorials using a dataset or many
>datasets. The datasets I have available on R are
>
>Data sets in package 'datasets':
>
>AirPassengers           Monthly Airline Passenger Numbers 1949-1960
>BJsales                 Sales Data with Leading Indicator
>BJsales.lead (BJsales)
>                        Sales Data with Leading Indicator
>BOD                     Biochemical Oxygen Demand
>CO2                     Carbon Dioxide uptake in grass plants
>ChickWeight             Weight versus age of chicks on different diets
>DNase                   Elisa assay of DNase
>EuStockMarkets          Daily Closing Prices of Major European Stock
>                        Indices, 1991-1998
>Formaldehyde            Determination of Formaldehyde
>HairEyeColor            Hair and Eye Color of Statistics Students
>Harman23.cor            Harman Example 2.3
>Harman74.cor            Harman Example 7.4
>Indometh                Pharmacokinetics of Indomethicin
>InsectSprays            Effectiveness of Insect Sprays
>JohnsonJohnson          Quarterly Earnings per Johnson & Johnson Share
>LakeHuron               Level of Lake Huron 1875-1972
>LifeCycleSavings        Intercountry Life-Cycle Savings Data
>Loblolly                Growth of Loblolly pine trees
>Nile                    Flow of the River Nile
>Orange                  Growth of orange trees
>OrchardSprays           Potency of Orchard Sprays
>PlantGrowth             Results from an Experiment on Plant Growth
>Puromycin               Reaction velocity of an enzymatic reaction
>Seatbelts               Road Casualties in Great Britain 1969-84
>Theoph                  Pharmacokinetics of theophylline
>Titanic                 Survival of passengers on the Titanic
>ToothGrowth             The Effect of Vitamin C on Tooth Growth in
>                        Guinea Pigs
>UCBAdmissions           Student Admissions at UC Berkeley
>UKDriverDeaths          Road Casualties in Great Britain 1969-84
>UKgas                   UK Quarterly Gas Consumption
>USAccDeaths             Accidental Deaths in the US 1973-1978
>USArrests               Violent Crime Rates by US State
>USJudgeRatings          Lawyers' Ratings of State Judges in the US
>                        Superior Court
>USPersonalExpenditure   Personal Expenditure Data
>VADeaths                Death Rates in Virginia (1940)
>WWWusage                Internet Usage per Minute
>WorldPhones             The World's Telephones
>ability.cov             Ability and Intelligence Tests
>airmiles                Passenger Miles on Commercial US Airlines,
>                        1937-1960
>airquality              New York Air Quality Measurements
>anscombe                Anscombe's Quartet of "Identical" Simple
>                        Linear Regressions
>attenu                  The Joyner-Boore Attenuation Data
>attitude                The Chatterjee-Price Attitude Data
>austres                 Quarterly Time Series of the Number of
>                        Australian Residents
>beaver1 (beavers)       Body Temperature Series of Two Beavers
>beaver2 (beavers)       Body Temperature Series of Two Beavers
>cars                    Speed and Stopping Distances of Cars
>chickwts                Chicken Weights by Feed Type
>co2                     Mauna Loa Atmospheric CO2 Concentration
>discoveries             Yearly Numbers of Important Discoveries
>esoph                   Smoking, Alcohol and (O)esophageal Cancer
>euro                    Conversion Rates of Euro Currencies
>euro.cross (euro)       Conversion Rates of Euro Currencies
>eurodist                Distances Between European Cities
>faithful                Old Faithful Geyser Data
>fdeaths (UKLungDeaths)
>                        Monthly Deaths from Lung Diseases in the UK
>freeny                  Freeny's Revenue Data
>freeny.x (freeny)       Freeny's Revenue Data
>freeny.y (freeny)       Freeny's Revenue Data
>infert                  Infertility after Spontaneous and Induced
>                        Abortion
>iris                    Edgar Anderson's Iris Data
>iris3                   Edgar Anderson's Iris Data
>islands                 Areas of the World's Major Landmasses
>ldeaths (UKLungDeaths)
>                        Monthly Deaths from Lung Diseases in the UK
>lh                      Luteinizing Hormone in Blood Samples
>longley                 Longley's Economic Regression Data
>lynx                    Annual Canadian Lynx trappings 1821-1934
>mdeaths (UKLungDeaths)
>                        Monthly Deaths from Lung Diseases in the UK
>morley                  Michaelson-Morley Speed of Light Data
>mtcars                  Motor Trend Car Road Tests
>nhtemp                  Average Yearly Temperatures in New Haven
>nottem                  Average Monthly Temperatures at Nottingham,
>                        1920-1939
>precip                  Annual Precipitation in US Cities
>presidents              Quarterly Approval Ratings of US Presidents
>pressure                Vapor Pressure of Mercury as a Function of
>                        Temperature
>quakes                  Locations of Earthquakes off Fiji
>randu                   Random Numbers from Congruential Generator
>                        RANDU
>rivers                  Lengths of Major North American Rivers
>rock                    Measurements on Petroleum Rock Samples
>sleep                   Student's Sleep Data
>stack.loss (stackloss)
>                        Brownlee's Stack Loss Plant Data
>stack.x (stackloss)     Brownlee's Stack Loss Plant Data
>stackloss               Brownlee's Stack Loss Plant Data
>state.abb (state)       US State Facts and Figures
>state.area (state)      US State Facts and Figures
>state.center (state)    US State Facts and Figures
>state.division (state)
>                        US State Facts and Figures
>state.name (state)      US State Facts and Figures
>state.region (state)    US State Facts and Figures
>state.x77 (state)       US State Facts and Figures
>sunspot.month           Monthly Sunspot Data, 1749-1997
>sunspot.year            Yearly Sunspot Data, 1700-1988
>sunspots                Monthly Sunspot Numbers, 1749-1983
>swiss                   Swiss Fertility and Socioeconomic Indicators
>                        (1888) Data
>treering                Yearly Treering Data, -6000-1979
>trees                   Girth, Height and Volume for Black Cherry
>                        Trees
>uspop                   Populations Recorded by the US Census
>volcano                 Topographic Information on Auckland's Maunga
>                        Whau Volcano
>warpbreaks              The Number of Breaks in Yarn during Weaving
>women                   Average Heights and Weights for American Women
>
>
>Use 'data(package = .packages(all.available = TRUE))'
>to list the data sets in all *available* packages.
>
>Brett Stansfield 
>Environmental Scientist - Water Quality 
>Hawke's Bay Regional Council 
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>
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>
>  
>


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