written
by a statistics professor in France uses R to solve the weekly mathematics
puzzles in *Le Monde*. Some are fairly complicated (last week's involved
simulated annealing, an optimization technique for finding global maxima)
but others are standard simulation exercises. Working through some of these
exercises and then checking his solutions would be great practice even for
veteran programmers.
Brandon
On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 5:27 PM, Agelos Berios <berios(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks for the link Brandon. Last week I came across
this discussion with
more suggestions:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/192369/books-for-learning-the-r-language
Thanks for the comment Laurel.
There is a new edition(December 2010), of Dr. John Fox's book. I am
contemplating buying it. Great to have so much choice! The "R in a Nutshel"
Brandon mentioned seems to have good reviews as well.
Agelos
On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Laurel Grassin-Drake <lgrassin(a)mit.edu>wrote;wrote:
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(a)lists.fas.harvard.edu [mailto:
gov2001-l-bounces(a)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=2…
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-u…
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=…
Good luck and happy coding! I promise that it gets easier.
Brandon
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