R Books listing on R-Project
Hello Stavros,
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 2:53 PM, Stavros Macrakis <macrakis at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
I was wondering what the criteria were for including books on the Books Related to R page <http://www.r-project.org/doc/bib/R-books.html>. (There is no maintainer listed on this page.) In particular, I was wondering why the following two books are not listed: * Andrew Gelman, Jennifer Hill, *Data Analysis Using Regression and Multilevel/Hierarchical Models*. (CRAN package 'arm') * Michael J. Crawley, *The R Book*. (reviewed, rather negatively, in *R News * *7*:2) Is the list more or less arbitrary? ?Does it reflect some editorial judgment about the value of these books? If so, it might be more useful to include the books, but with critical reviews. ?It doesn't seem to be a matter of up-to-dateness, because 38/87 of the listed books were published in a more recent year than Gelman or Crawley. The list is currently in reverse chronological order. ?I wonder if it would be useful to group the entries thematically -- I'd be happy to help on that project.
I had a similar idea in 2008 for the R-wiki: http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/e5/devel/08/10/0481.html There were no responses and I ran out of time to continue working on it myself. If you are interested in proceeding along these lines then I have some more ideas and would be willing to help... or, perhaps you (or somebody else) knows of an even better approach. Cheers Jay *************************************************** G. Jay Kerns, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Mathematics & Statistics Youngstown State University Youngstown, OH 44555-0002 USA Office: 1035 Cushwa Hall Phone: (330) 941-3310 Office (voice mail) -3302 Department -3170 FAX E-mail: gkerns at ysu.edu http://www.cc.ysu.edu/~gjkerns/