[R] Phil Spector's book

[Thomas Adams]

Mark,

I concur. It has helped me very much in the short time I have used it. 
Very concise and well written.

Thanks Phil!


markleeds at verizon.net wrote:
> 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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>>
>> -- 
>> Dr. Mark Wardle
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