RH5.2 bundle
[About publishing a R-book]
The advantage of this is (a) it is *much* more convenient for the user, (b) it gets some money into the R community, especially if it was sold directly over the web, which could help finance the next version (c) it is a serious publication that will get cited with an ISBN number and (d) it will encourage the managers of the institutions where all you good
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Secondly, should one stick to the "freely distributable" way, even if actual books were produced and would any publisher accept such a scheme? I agree that ISBN numbers are important for several reasons.
I'm not sure whether you refers with the freely distributable also to the "to be written book", but I think one might be able to find a publisher to accept a scheme in which an book accompanies freely available software and reference manuals. For example, although I know the user base is somewhat different, "The LaTeX companion" is a good example of this scheme. Probably I would be one of the firsts to buy such a book. Greetings, Hedderik.
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