[R] Blue Book

[Bill.Venables@cmis.csiro.au]

David Jensen asks:

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> From: 	David Jensen [mailto:dvjens at worldnet.att.net] 
> Sent:	Friday, May 17, 2002 3:11 PM
> To:	r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject:	[R] Blue Book
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> I came across a very cheap of the infamous blue book - The New S Language
> (1988).  Is this book still relevant to modern S or R or am I wasting my
> time?
	[WNV]  I'd say you are not wasting your time if you are serious
about learning S.  

	It's not like R A Fisher (who nobody should read unless they have
done so at least once before) but to me it is one of those books that become
clearer in hindsight.  Little comments make more sense in the light of
experience, especially the darker, more intense final chapters and
appendices.

	It's a fundamental book for the S language.

	Bill Venables.



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