[clug] Learning 'R'. Any courses in Canberra? Other resources?

[Ben Davies]

On 9 July 2013 18:25, steve jenkin <sjenkin at canb.auug.org.au> wrote:
> I need to bang around some figures and produce graphs and probably need
> to learn 'R'.
>
> Can anybody suggest how I might learn 'R'??
>
> I've struggled with the built-in help files and this is my second go at
> doing something useful with it.

This sounds familiar. From some very sporadic use, I recall the built
in doco tended to be sparse. I also had some trouble finding some
decent doco - compared to languages like Python and C where there are
tons of tutorials. In the end, I think it was a matter of searching
for odds and ends and gradually hacking together a script until it
worked. No doubt I missed out on various language features...

There is a Canberra R user's group:
http://www.meetup.com/Canberra-R-Users-Group/

I assume someone there would know a lot more than I   :-)

cheers,


Ben