R help - Apr 2003 - Analyzing Medical Data Using S-PLUS by Everitt and Rabe-Hasketh

Dear All,

I have just read a glowing review (in the Int. Journal of
Epidemiology) of "Analyzing Medical Data Using S-PLUS" by Everitt and
Rabe-Hesketh and it sounds like the sort of thing I would like to get
my hands on.  Is anyone on this list familiar with this book, and in
particular have a feel for how useful it will be with R?  According to
the review the emphasis is on the command line rather than the gui
which is a good sign for "compatibility".  From what I have picked up
from being on this list, my copy of MASS and various R docs the
differences are likely to be few, but I would feel more comfortable if
I could get some opinions from more experienced R/S-plus users.

Thanks.

Dave

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Dave Whiting
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 11:39:52PM -0500, Marc Schwartz
wrote:
> 
> Dave,
> 
> I don't know if you have received any feedback, but thought I would
> offer my thoughts.
[...]
> particular writing style.  My recommendation would be to see if your
> library might have a copy for you to review before your commit to a
> purchase. That would give you the opportunity to review it in
> comparison to the others and see if the content is sufficiently
> different to warrant a purchase.
Thanks Mark.  Good advice.  I am based full-time in Tanzania at the
moment and probably won't be able to see a copy before I buy.
Compared to your collection my book collection is still relatively
small (but growing).  

The synopsis on Amazon is not very helpful and seems to be more of a
plan for the book conceived before the it was written.  The synopsis
also says:

"The book would complement Venables and Ripley (VR). However, there is
far less about the details of S-PLUS and probably less technical
descriptions of techniques."

The first sentence is good - I have (critical) MASS - but the second
makes me nervous... Ah, I'm going to give it a go.

Thanks.

Dave

-- 
Dave Whiting
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania