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Review of “R Graphs Cookbook” by Hrishi Mittal

Executive summary: Extremely useful for new users, informative to even quite seasoned users. Refereeing Once upon a time a publisher asked if I would referee a book (unspecified) about R.  In an instance that can only be described as psychotic I said yes.  That bit of insanity turned out to be a good thing. I … Continue reading

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Some quibbles about “The R Book” by Michael Crawley

A friend recently bought The R Book and I said I would tell him of problems that I’ve noticed with it.  You can eavesdrop. Page 4 The word “library” is used instead of “package”.  This (common)  error substantially raises the blood pressure of some people — probably to an unwarranted extent. An R package is … Continue reading

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