[R] Statitics Textbook - any recommendation?

[Peter Dalgaard]

Martin Maechler <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch> writes:

>     GS> I couldn't agree more. A number of my colleagues have bought Peter
>     GS> Dalgaard's book to a) learn some R and b) learn some statistics. They
>     GS> have found it very useful indeed.
> 
> Yes!
> I'm pretty sure it has been the first book of its kind ("Intro Stats + R"), 
> and in my view is still the best.

Thanks for the kind words, but...

>     >> > > I went to the CRAN contributed documentation, but there
>     >> > > were only R textbooks, that is, textbooks where R is the
>     >> > > focus, not the statistics. And I would like to find the
>     >> > > opposite.

and that does to some extent apply to my book too. Perhaps have a look
at Maindonald & Braun as well.

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