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Anybody know where I can get the Pinheiro/Bates book? I can't find a bookstore w/ stock and the publisher says they don't know when they'll have it again. Thanks. -Frank

I wonder if someone can give some pointers on alternatives to linear regression (e.g. Loess) when dealing with multiple variables. Taking any simple table with three variables, you can very easily get the intercept and coefficients with: summary(lm(read_table)) For obvious reasons, the coefficients in a multiple regression are quite different from what you get if you calculate regressions for

There is something that I wish I had that I think would help me a lot to be a better R programmer, that I think would probably help many others as well. I put the wish out there in the hopes that someone might think it was worth doing at some point. I wish I had the code of some substantial, widely used package ? lm, say ? heavily annotated and explained at roughly the level of R knowledge of