The Book of R: A First Course in Programming and Statistics

An excellent book. Or rather 3 books in 1 representing: Programming in R, Statistics in R and Graphics in R and therefore excellent value.Unlike some other R books, lots of exercises to practice on. Programming is about practice, practice, practice.I'm an experienced programmer (other languages) and worked through Sections 1 and 2 in about a week of full time work.Obviously I will need a more advanced book at some point but this covered the basics admirably.

Excellent book as an introductory text for learning R - I'm much a newbie and have starting developing in R with more confidence. The sections on matrices is fantastic!

Bought this to help me progress from VBA in excel to some *proper* data skillz.It's a good book. The sections about ellipses could be clearer, but for general principles and guidance, it's been very good. I'm actually still working through the later part of the book, but if you want something to get you up and running, this is a good choice. The first half has (so far) been enough to teach me what I needed. The second half, when I finish it, should be icing on the cake.