I’ve also been struggling with R, and  I have found the book by Fox which is recommended on the syllabus to be very helpful.

Laurel

From: gov2001-l-bounces@lists.fas.harvard.edu [mailto:gov2001-l-bounces@lists.fas.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Brandon Stewart
Sent: Friday, January 28, 2011 10:14 PM
To: Class List for Gov 2001/E-2001
Subject: [gov2001] R Exercises and Resources

Gov 2001,

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'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.

Teaching R through Sabermetrics

http://princeofslides.blogspot.com/search/label/sab-R-metrics?updated-max=2011-01-11T11:07:00-05:00&max-results=20

CRAN's Introduction to R

http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-intro.pdf

Some nice R exercises

http://faculty.washington.edu/tlumley/Rcourse/someexamples.pdf

LearnR Toolkit for Excel Users (exercises, lecture notes and video!)

http://chartsgraphs.wordpress.com/2011/01/09/learnr-toolkit-to-help-excel-users-move-up-to-r/

The R Primer

http://www.stat.washington.edu/cggreen/rprimer/

You also might consider R in a Nutshell: http://www.amazon.com/R-Nutshell-Desktop-Quick-Reference/dp/059680170X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1296270780&sr=8-1

Good luck and happy coding!  I promise that it gets easier.

Brandon