[R] Phil Spector's book

[markleeds at verizon.net]

Since we're on the topic of book reviews, I just received Phil Spector's 
new R book called "Data Manipulation with R"  and it is also quite a
nice book. I haven't gone through it all and I won't give  a detailed 
review but I have gotten a lot out of the first 100 pages that I have 
read.

Note that I've been using R for almost 1.5 years so , for me, it's a 
really useful book.  For someone who's used it for longer than that or 
is just really, really great at using R in an efficient manner and knows 
all the neat tricks already, they of course may not need the book.

Great job Phil.





On Fri, May 2, 2008 at  4:20 PM, Mark Wardle wrote:

> Sorry.
>
> I received a very exciting email from Springer and placed my order and
> felt compelled to advertise it. Didn't see any previous postings about
> it. Hope no offence taken!
>
> Best wishes, and well done with book. Looking forward to receiving 
> it...
>
> Mark
>
> 2008/5/2 Deepayan Sarkar <deepayan.sarkar at gmail.com>:
>> On 4/30/08, Charilaos Skiadas <cskiadas at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Actually it's been out for a couple of weeks now at least.
>>
>>  Yes, it's been out since March 12, actually.
>>
>>
>>> I just finished
>>> my first reading of it, and I must say it was spectacular. 
>>> Congratulations
>>> Deepayan, the book gave me exactly the kind of lattice knowledge I 
>>> needed,
>>> and then some. The graphics are really impressive and good 
>>> illustrations of
>>> what lattice can do, and I found the writing very clear, with the 
>>> complexity
>>> increasing at just the right speed. I definitely recommend it to 
>>> anyone who
>>> wants to learn how to use lattice, at any level they desire.
>>
>>  Thanks for the great review :-)
>>
>>  As Karl mentioned, there is a website with code and figures from the 
>> book at
>>
>>
>>  http://lmdvr.r-forge.r-project.org/
>>
>>  I also hope to eventually write some short vignettes on topics not
>>  covered in the book, and put them up here. Feel free to suggest 
>> topics
>>  to me. And of course, please report any typos and errors.
>>
>>  -Deepayan
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 
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