Calling R lovers to work together on “The R Programming wikibook”

Re:Calling R lovers to work together on “The R Programming w... by mjw on Monday June 20, 2011 @05:38PM (#2676210)

I'd love to see an "R for rubyists/pythonists/...", basically an R tutorial aimed at reasonably experienced programmers which explains what you need to know about the quirks of R to properly grok it as a language, how it differs to ones you're familiar with, etc.

As opposed to a tutorial aimed at the "I really just want a recipe to achieve statistical task xyz" crowd.

In particular: every time I delve back into R, I forget how its funky data structures work.

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Re:Calling R lovers to work together on “The R Programming w... by noahnoahnoah on Monday June 20, 2011 @07:18PM (#2676550)

I've always found this to be helpful for programmers coming from other languages: http://www.johndcook.com/R_language_for_programmers.html

(not the author, just a fan)

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Re:Calling R lovers to work together on “The R Programming w... by ahi on Monday June 20, 2011 @06:30PM (#2676407)

Not sure that's possible. "R in a Nutshell" is 640 pages for a reason.

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