[R] Lattice book

Frank E Harrell Jr f.harrell at vanderbilt.edu
Fri May 2 13:50:37 CEST 2008


Michael Kubovy wrote:
> I too have been studying the book and it is indeed outstanding.
> 
> For my purposes the only topic missing is the straightforward drawing  
> of error bars and bands, for which I've been using Hmisc::xYplot  
> (where error bands seem to be broken for R) or gplots::barplot2.

If these are broken in xYplot we need to have a bug report with a small 
reproducible example.

Frank

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> On May 1, 2008, at 7:26 PM, Deepayan Sarkar wrote:
> 
>> 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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