[R] Fw: How to learn R language?

[Peter Dalgaard]

saggak wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I am a post graduate in Statistics. I want to learn R language, but am very confused as to how to begin systematically. I need to learn R language from Statistics point of view e.g. I need to fit distributions to data or run regression analysis etc. No doubt there are so many articles available on internet. But can someone guide me as to how do I begin and go on improving myself SYSTEMATICALLY?
>
> Hence, please guide me as to how should I start learning R language? What should I read first etc.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Sagga K
>   

It depends on your starting point, of course. Whether you have a
background with other statistical packages and/or with programming
languages like C, etc.

Quite a few people have started from the intro manual that ships with R
(and its predecessor for S-PLUS). There are quite a few books out, see
for instance http://www.r-project.org/doc/bib/R-books.html (thanks for
reminding me that the info for my own book needs to be updated for the
2nd ed., by the way...), and freely available documents in
http://cran.r-project.org/other-docs.html.

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