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

> On 4/30/08, Charilaos Skiadas <cskiadas@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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