Recently I was asked by O’Reilly publishing to give a book review for Paul Teetor new introductory book to R. After giving the book some attention and appreciating it’s delivery of the material, I was happy to write and post this review. Also, I’m very happy to see how a major publishing house like O’Reilly is producing more and more R books, great news indeed.
And now for the book review:
Executive summary: a book that offers a well designed gentle introduction for people with some background in statistics wishing to learn how to get common (basic) tasks done with R.
Information
By: Paul Teetor
Publisher:O’Reilly
MediaReleased: January 2011
Pages: 58 (est.)
Format
The book “25 Recipes for Getting Started with R” offers an interesting take on how to bring R to the general (statistically oriented) public.
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