I was wondering what the criteria were for including books on the Books
Related to R page <http://www.r-project.org/doc/bib/R-books.html>. (There is
no maintainer listed on this page.)

In particular, I was wondering why the following two books are not listed:

* Andrew Gelman, Jennifer Hill, *Data Analysis Using Regression and
Multilevel/Hierarchical Models*. (CRAN package 'arm')

* Michael J. Crawley, *The R Book*. (reviewed, rather negatively, in *R News
* *7*:2)

Is the list more or less arbitrary?  Does it reflect some editorial judgment
about the value of these books? If so, it might be more useful to include
the books, but with critical reviews.  It doesn't seem to be a matter of
up-to-dateness, because 38/87 of the listed books were published in a more
recent year than Gelman or Crawley.

The list is currently in reverse chronological order.  I wonder if it would
be useful to group the entries thematically -- I'd be happy to help on that
project.

          -s

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