[R] R Documentation(s)

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

On Wed, 3 May 2000, Ko-Kang Wang wrote:

> Douglas Bates wrote:
> 
> > Ko-Kang Wang <Ko-Kang at xtra.co.nz> writes:
> >
> > > Emmanuel Paradis wrote:
> >
> > > > I am interested by the various messages sent to the r-help mailing list
> > > > these last few days about documentation on R. Yet, there are a lot of
> > > > issues actually open on this topic, and it is not clear to me what is the
> > > > "urgent need for documentation" on R.
> >
> > > I agree.  The online help is extremely useful.  However, and it's
> > > just my personal opinion, some documentation for advanced user on
> > > how to write new R functions, more advanced R features...maybe quite
> > > useful.

An R Language Manual is planned, but is making slow progress.

> > You're in luck.  Springer has (apparently) just published "S
> > Programming" by Venables and Ripley.  In the U.S. amazon.com says it
> > is available now at (US)$65 plus shipping.

> Does any of you (especially the R users in New Zealand) know where I can purchase
> 
> it in New Zealand?

You will need a little patience.  It has been available in the US for about
10 days, and will unfortunately take a while to ship to Australasia (or
Europe or Asia or ...).  The only quicker way out is to order from the US
direct.  As Bill Venables will attest, the world has shrunk electronically
recently, but not as far as publishers are concerned.

[The book is indeed about advanced R programming: it treats R as one of
three dialects of the S language.]

-- 
Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
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