[R] Getting started help

Mark Difford mark_difford at yahoo.co.uk
Tue Feb 19 16:34:00 CET 2008


Hi Rthoughts,

>> I am currently discouraged by the use of r. I cannot figure out how to
>> use it despite
>> extensive searches. Can anyone help me with getting started? How can
>> import 
>> a txt file with series...

There are piles of documents that you could (and should) read.  I am
surprised that you haven't found them in your extensive searches.  To set
your thoughts free, go here:

http://www.r-project.org/
http://cran.r-project.org/manuals.html    ## read the first one, and
whatever else you need

Then click on CRAN, and choose a mirror site (nearby), say:
http://cran.za.r-project.org/

Then go:
http://cran.za.r-project.org/other-docs.html

and start at the top.

HTH,
Mark.

PS: It might help you in your future enquiries if you used a real name, and
if you called R R rather than r (since your keyboard clearly doesn't have a
broken R ;).



Rthoughts wrote:
> 
> Hello, I need to learn to use r-software for my PhD research project
> involving long timelines of radon radiation variations.
> 
> I am using windows.
> 
> I am currently discouraged by the use of r. I cannot figure out how to use
> it despite extensive searches. Can anyone help me with getting started?
> How can import a txt file with series of numbers from the RAD7 machine?
> How can I open up and set directories with the imported file or to start a
> new r session?
> 
> Thank you so much if you can help.
> 

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