but I think also it's very expensive, and as I recall the review in the R
newsletter wasn't that good.

Also Venables and Ripley cover a lot of the material that Vanesa mentioned.
GW

On 8/20/08, Laura Chihara <lchihara@carleton.edu> wrote:
>
>
> "The R Book" by Crawley (Wiley) is comprehensive and very useful.
> It got a nice review in the latest issue of "The American
> Statistician"
>
> -Laura
>
> Vanesa Maribel Fernández wrote:
>
>> Hallo! My
>> name is Vanesa; I am a biology PhD student from Argentina. I am used to
>> carry out
>> statistical analysis of data from our experiments. And I would like to
>> have a
>> book to learn how to use â€śRâ€  for statistical. I need one which
>> contains for
>> example: analysis of categorical data, regression, ANOVA (fixed, mixed,
>> repeated measures nestled), etc.
>> Can you
>> help me to choose a book? Thank you
>> very much.
>> Vanesa
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----
>> From: "Thomas, Judy" <judy.thomas@taylorandfrancis.com>
>> To: r-sig-teaching@r-project.org
>> Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 11:27:42 AM
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