I've been using R for a little over a year now and it's been a successful venture. But all too often, I find that there is something that I can't figure out for lack of knowing how to find it or an example of it.
Stackoverflow,
Could you recommend a pathway for learning R in a manner that provides one with a toolset at their disposal to solve problems of a statistical nature?
There's a wealth of knowledge on the internet, between the r-project website and the mailings lists but it seems to be "everywhere" and nowhere when you're actually looking for it.
For example, when I first started using R, I went through "Intro to R". Then I read the language definition (which obviously hasn't sunk in). But every time I ask a question on Stackoverflow I'm presented with some new badass function that is the solution to all my problems in the short term. My question is, how did you know these functions existed in the first place? And how does one go about finding them? Presumably, you read something or found some resources that detoured your learning to the exponential part of the curve. What was it?
Obviously, R's functionality as a statistical tool is broad. For my own purposes I work mostly with economic or financial data. Hence, answers with this in mind would be most helpful.