The R Cookbook by Paul Teetor ( O'Reilly Media) aims and succeeds in introducing programmers to the technical aspects of the R language. R is a programming language designed for Statistical work, therefore it might not share too much ground with other typical languages like Python or C. The R Cookbook gives a tour to programmers to this wonderful language, from the very screen output beginnings, through ploting, to the creation of statistical models and Time Series. The author does a great job exposing the differences and similarities of R to other languages. For example, the author, explains how in R the single brackets applied to a vector (myvector[1]) mean "give me a vector of one item from myvector", he then explains that the correct way to get a single item is myvector[1]. Comparisons to other languages like SQL are dispersed through the chapters. Mr. Teetor provides a throughout explanation of other aspects of R that might not be common in other computer lang...
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