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Not very good. He mentions Helen Charley where he got his early notes, but doesn't acknowledge his great debt.
There are other, better organized books, on such food notes, and saving a meal.
Skim, and pass it up in favour of older books.
Books in German and French of such hints are better, partly because of better kitchens and organization, scales rather than 'cups' and other science based tools.
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Second edition is a good beginning book, though even the authors would argue that the CRAN depository provides enough documentation.
There are chapter end questions, and they provide answers on http://www (dot) maths.anu.edu (dot) au/~johnm/r-book.
Still the basic bible of R is MASS "Modern Applied Statistics with S" by W. N. Venables and B. D. Ripley (Springer, various editions), as you can see by its constant listing in the further reading for each chapter.
Unfortunately they barely touch on the new surge in genetic studies with R, such as bioconductor.org so even the exercises with the expanded hints will not prove useful in the future use.
A nice feature is the extraction of the R code from examples, tables and graphs and appended so that you can see how they arrived at the illustration.
It might have been nice to include a Quantian self-booting Linux CDRom which has the full set of R on it, though downloading the basic software is very easy for various platforms and with Fox's Rcommander interface beginning users can get used to results.
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Keys to Good Cooking: A Guide to Making the Best of Foods and Recipes by Harold McGee
Daniel Say, December 8, 2010
Not very good. He mentions Helen Charley where he got his early notes, but doesn't acknowledge his great debt.There are other, better organized books, on such food notes, and saving a meal.
Skim, and pass it up in favour of older books.
Books in German and French of such hints are better, partly because of better kitchens and organization, scales rather than 'cups' and other science based tools.
(0 of 7 readers found this comment helpful)
Data Analysis and Graphics Using R: An Example-Based Approach (Cambridge Series in Statistical and Probabilistic Mathematic) by John Braun
Daniel Say, November 15, 2007
Second edition is a good beginning book, though even the authors would argue that the CRAN depository provides enough documentation.There are chapter end questions, and they provide answers on http://www (dot) maths.anu.edu (dot) au/~johnm/r-book.
Still the basic bible of R is MASS "Modern Applied Statistics with S" by W. N. Venables and B. D. Ripley (Springer, various editions), as you can see by its constant listing in the further reading for each chapter.
Unfortunately they barely touch on the new surge in genetic studies with R, such as bioconductor.org so even the exercises with the expanded hints will not prove useful in the future use.
A nice feature is the extraction of the R code from examples, tables and graphs and appended so that you can see how they arrived at the illustration.
It might have been nice to include a Quantian self-booting Linux CDRom which has the full set of R on it, though downloading the basic software is very easy for various platforms and with Fox's Rcommander interface beginning users can get used to results.