Esmail <esmail...@gmail.com> [Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 01:07:15PM CET]: > ps: Just checked, 'R in a Nutshell': > http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596801717 > release date dec 2009/jan 2010
You can't really judge a book by its cover, and in this case not even the cover is presented to us. But judging by the author's background, I'd presume that you are likely to get a computer scientist's intro to R. This is an angle that very few books have taken so far ... most are written by statisticians who write from the problem solving point of view. If you are a statistician, you are probably well served with some of the books available on R. Among these, I too found Venables and Ripley a good read, as they give you some depth on S the language, rather than talking about "101 wonderful things you can do with R". -- Johannes Hüsing There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture mailto:johan...@huesing.name from such a trifling investment of fact. http://derwisch.wikidot.com (Mark Twain, "Life on the Mississippi") ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.