Book for R programming

[red_devil]

Hello All

Could you suggest a good book to learn R programming for a beginner

Thanks
Varun

 

[DavidH]

No books necessary - start with a simple problem you want to solve (that will involve some basic uses of loops, functions, vectors/lists), and start by searching "How to declare a function in R" and take it from there. Easiest way to learn the basics of a language like R (which requires almost no complicated syntax or set up).

 

[red_devil]

Hello David

Thanks for the advise. Doing just that, started with a few problems .

If you could only suggest a book , that would make it a little more organized for me to learn.

Would be glad if you have a good book in mind !!

 

[Polter]

Since you've asked about a "book for R programing", I can think of only one (and it is a pretty good book):
http://nostarch.com/artofr.htm

(Beware: most other books involving R I've encountered aren't about programming, but instead focused solely on the one-shot function calls to a task-specific set of APIs, like for instance statistics packages -- they're more like domain-specific cookbooks, in fact.)

 

[red_devil]

Thank you so much Polter !!

 

[IlyaKEightSix]

Take Eric Zivot's Coursera course. Seriously.

 

[systemtrader]

http://www.amazon.com/Cookbook-ORei...id=1381846086&sr=8-3&keywords=r+in+a+nutshell

http://www.amazon.com/The-Art-Progr...=UTF8&qid=1381846113&sr=8-1&keywords=art+of+r

http://www.amazon.com/R-Nutshell-Jo...id=1381846086&sr=8-1&keywords=r+in+a+nutshell