[R-sig-eco] Review of R books

Gavin Simpson gavin.simpson at ucl.ac.uk
Mon Feb 9 18:09:33 CET 2009


For another review of Crawley's "The R Book", take a look at the review
by Fritz Leisch in the October 2007 edition of R News (Vol 7 Issue 2):

http://cran.r-project.org/doc/Rnews/Rnews_2007-2.pdf

This is somewhat more verbose than the summary review for the book that
won your "Best R Reference Book" award ;-)

G

On Sun, 2009-02-08 at 22:45 -0500, Erle C. Ellis wrote:
> Greetings!
> Looking for books on R software for statistics and modeling?
> 
> If so, check out our review of 12 of the most recent and popular books on R
> at:
> http://ecotope.org/blogs/page/R-Book-Review.aspx
> 
> In our review, we review each book and select what we consider to be:
> * The Best Introductory book on R software
> * The Best R Reference book
> * Best Introductory Statistics book based on R
>  
> There is also a new blog post on R:
> http://ecotope.org/blogs/post/R-is-for-statistics-Revolution.aspx
> 
> Onward with the R*evolution!
> -Erle
> -----
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>  Dept. of Geography & Environmental Systems
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>  University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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