Of course minutes after writing this an excellent blog post went up containing recommendations for intro to R books.  I couldn&#39;t resist passing it along as well:<div><a href="http://csgillespie.wordpress.com/2011/01/28/r-programming-books-updated/">http://csgillespie.wordpress.com/2011/01/28/r-programming-books-updated/</a></div>
<div><br></div><div><a href="http://csgillespie.wordpress.com/2011/01/28/r-programming-books-updated/"></a>Brandon<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 10:14 PM, Brandon Stewart <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:bstewart@fas.harvard.edu">bstewart@fas.harvard.edu</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Gov 2001,<div><br></div><div>Thanks to everyone who is annotating, turning in the reading quizzes and otherwise participating in the class.  One of the early pieces of feedback we&#39;ve gotten is request for more R learning materials.  I culled together some R resources that you may or may not have seen.  These are in addition to the resources available on the Course Website under Computing Documentation, Using R and Zelig.</div>

<div><br></div><div><div>Teaching R through Sabermetrics</div><div><a href="http://princeofslides.blogspot.com/search/label/sab-R-metrics?updated-max=2011-01-11T11:07:00-05:00&amp;max-results=20" target="_blank">http://princeofslides.blogspot.com/search/label/sab-R-metrics?updated-max=2011-01-11T11:07:00-05:00&amp;max-results=20</a></div>

<div><br></div><div>CRAN&#39;s Introduction to R</div><div><a href="http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-intro.pdf" target="_blank">http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-intro.pdf</a></div><div><br></div><div>Some nice R exercises</div>

<div><a href="http://faculty.washington.edu/tlumley/Rcourse/someexamples.pdf" target="_blank">http://faculty.washington.edu/tlumley/Rcourse/someexamples.pdf</a></div><div><br></div><div>LearnR Toolkit for Excel Users (exercises, lecture notes and video!)</div>

<div><a href="http://chartsgraphs.wordpress.com/2011/01/09/learnr-toolkit-to-help-excel-users-move-up-to-r/" target="_blank">http://chartsgraphs.wordpress.com/2011/01/09/learnr-toolkit-to-help-excel-users-move-up-to-r/</a></div>
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</div><div>The R Primer</div><div><a href="http://www.stat.washington.edu/cggreen/rprimer/" target="_blank">http://www.stat.washington.edu/cggreen/rprimer/</a></div><div><br></div><div>You also might consider R in a Nutshell: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/R-Nutshell-Desktop-Quick-Reference/dp/059680170X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1296270780&amp;sr=8-1" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/R-Nutshell-Desktop-Quick-Reference/dp/059680170X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1296270780&amp;sr=8-1</a></div>

<div><br></div><div>Good luck and happy coding!  I promise that it gets easier.</div></div><div><br></div><font color="#888888"><div>Brandon</div>
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