R help - May 2020 - [External] Re: access for free more than 500 essential Springer Nature textbooks

The Excel file is what you need.
As Fabio remarked, the downloadable links are in column R

I normally read (and write) Excel files into R using library(openxlsx)
There are also several other packages on CRAN for reading and writing Excel.

MARC stands for
MAchine-Readable Cataloging.
Information is at the Library of Congress
 https://www.loc.gov/marc/faq.html

Rich

On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 2:24 PM Abby Spurdle <spurdle.a at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> That sounds like progress.
>
> However, I was unable to use their website.
> All I can find is Excel documents (which I can't open) and MARC (?),
> which I don't have time to look into.
>
> Your post might have more value, if you provide a list of the titles
> (or a link to a list, in an easy to read open access format), ideally
> with a note on where to find open access copies of those texts,
> without spending a long time searching.
>
> On Sat, May 23, 2020 at 4:29 AM Richard M. Heiberger <rmh at
temple.edu> wrote:
> >
> > Springer has just made available free access to many books through
July.
> > This is part of their global program to support educators, students
> > and academics
> > affected by coronavirus lockdown.
> >
> > Their list includes about 20 statistics books in English and 2 in
> > German.  Several, including mine, have R in the title or subtitle.
> >
> > This link describes the program:
> >
https://www.springernature.com/gp/librarians/news-events/all-news-articles/industry-news-initiatives/free-access-to-textbooks-for-institutions-affected-by-coronaviru/17855960?sap-outbound-id=07923935E132AFCC90201BAEA7D6755EC6C597DE&utm_source=hybris-campaign&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=000_BARZ01_0000001531_AEXS_AWA_CB02_GL_txt_covid&utm_content=EN_internal_5917_20200522&mkt-key=42010A0550671EDA9BA73AC34F576EF6
> >
> > My book is
> > Statistical Analysis and Data Display, Richard M. Heiberger, Burt
> > Holland, 2nd ed. 2015
> > It is supported by the HH package available from CRAN.
> >
> > Rich
> >
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On Fri, 22 May 2020 at 21:15, Richard M. Heiberger <rmh at temple.edu>
wrote:
> The Excel file is what you need.
> As Fabio remarked, the downloadable links are in column R
>
> I normally read (and write) Excel files into R using library(openxlsx)
> There are also several other packages on CRAN for reading and writing
> Excel.
>
> I opened the .xlxs file in LibreOffice Calc.  I pasted the links in
column S into my browser and was offered a download in pdf and /or epub.
This worked very well.  Apologies for the double posting


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> The Excel file is what you need.
Well, now I'm in a bad mood.

I went to all the trouble of opening the thing...
And the first two Springer-published books I look for, aren't there.

(1) Programming with Data, John Chambers
(2) Applied Econometrics with R, Z and co.

Next time someone tells me to use an Excel document, I'm adding them
to the spam list.

You are bound to be disappointed if you invert the purpose of the list. This is
marketing... think of it as a sale... stores rarely put their entire stock on
sale... particularly if the sale price is zero. You have to start with the list
and look for interesting titles.

But don't let me dissuade you from adding to your killfile if that seems
more useful to you.

On May 22, 2020 5:04:29 PM PDT, Abby Spurdle <spurdle.a at gmail.com>
wrote:
>> The Excel file is what you need.
>
>Well, now I'm in a bad mood.
>
>I went to all the trouble of opening the thing...
>And the first two Springer-published books I look for, aren't there.
>
>(1) Programming with Data, John Chambers
>(2) Applied Econometrics with R, Z and co.
>
>Next time someone tells me to use an Excel document, I'm adding them
>to the spam list.
>
>______________________________________________
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>http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
>and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
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