shapiro.test

Regarding : "... I don't know
what the 4th to last page would be called (could add another ante-, or
in R just use tail(book,4))..."

According to wordsmith.org (sign up it's free, note I have no affiliation to that site) the word is "preantepenultimate".


Check it out:
http://wordsmith.org/words/preantepenultimate.html

Yes it's off-topic. Please write your congressman.

KW

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