Congratulations to Bill Venables and Brian Ripley for their latest "tour de
force" - MASS 4, which just arrived in my mailbox last week. As always,
the book contains new pearls of wisdom to improve my statistical and
programming skills.
Kudos also to Peter Dalgaard for his "Introduction to Statistics with
R". It is a delightful volume that I can recommend to all those students
who simply want to use R for basic statistics but don't want/need to go
into the subtle and sophisticated data management techniques offered by
R. The beauty of Peter's book is that it very subtly entices the good
student into Bill and Brian's book(s), as well as the core teams
well-written introductions.
I hope that our purchase of these books helps to demonstrate to the three
of them how much we (I) genuinely appreciate the time and effort they have
put into making R (and S-Plus) my (and my students) statistical software of
choice.
Congratulations on a job well-done.
Dr. Marc R. Feldesman
email: feldesmanm at pdx.edu
email: feldesman at attglobal.net
fax: 503-725-3905
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Don't like where I've been.
There may be no exit.
But hell, I'm going in." Jimmy Buffett
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