Hello Stavros, On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 2:53 PM, Stavros Macrakis <macra...@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: gke...@ysu.edu http://www.cc.ysu.edu/~gjkerns/ ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
