On 08-Jan-2001 Bill Oliver wrote:
As of a moment ago (9 a.m., Monday, Jan. 8, 2001), the S Programming
book by
Venables and Ripley was once again selling for 17.98 American dollars
at
Amazon.com. Alas, I notice that "Mixed Effects Models in S and S-Plus"
by
Pinheiro and Bates now lists at Amazon for 97.25 American dollars, as
opposed to about $70 a little while ago.
Yeah, but S Programming is out of stock. It's like that old joke:
A woman goes into a produce store and asks the price of broccoli. The
clerk tells her it's 0.89 a pound. She says, ``But down the street
it's only 0.49 a pound.'' ``Well, why don't you buy it there?'' the
clerk asks. ``They don't have any more in stock,'' she replies.
``Well, when we're out of it, it's 0.49 a pound here, too.''