A First Course in Statistical Programming with R
"While it is rare to see in a book, denseness does not have to be difficult and this book is an example of that. The authors are terse and effective as they clearly demonstrate how to use the R package.  If you lack the budget for the purchase of a commercial computational mathematics package, then R with this textbook provides a very low cost alternative for many classes."Charles Ashbacher, Journal of Recreational Mathematics" a useful introductory text..."Andrew Schaffner, The American Statistician"As an R novice, I appreciated the explanations. Several times, I reacted with 'Oh, that's how it is supposed to be done.' ... I like this book and I learned a lot. I am convinced that most readers (including regular R users and mature statisticians) will learn something useful from this book. Again, it is not a book for learning statistical data analysis in R, but it is the right book for a statistician to learn the structure of R, and it is a good book to study before (or after) learning data analysis. I highly recommend this book."Myron Hlynka, Technometrics