Today I learned about two forthcoming R books that I'm now looking forward to.
The first is Applied Predictive Modeling by Max Kuhn and Kjell Johnson. Max Kuhn is the author of the caret package, an extremely useful and powerful R package for fitting and optimizing all kinds of predictive models in R. It's available now on Amazon Kindle and will be published in hardcover by Springer in July.
The second is Dynamic Documents with R and knitr by Yihui Xie, the author of the knitr package. With knitr you can easily create beautiful documents and reports, with text, tables and figures all dynamically generated by R. It will also be available in July.
If you already have either of these books, let us know in the comments.
Hi, David:
This is a little further out, but there is another one from Manning that's on the horizon: Practical Data Science with R, by Nina Zumel and John Mount. It's currently available in the Early Access Program, so the chapters are available as they're written and one can interact with the authors in the forums.
Posted by: Nitin | May 29, 2013 at 19:36
For the second one (Dynamic Documents with R and knitr by Yihui Xie) there's an (earlier?) version at github available under a creative commons license.
Posted by: Stelios Sfakianakis | May 30, 2013 at 00:25
Hmm, just realized that the version at GitHub is empty. Sorry for the spam.
Posted by: Stelios Sfakianakis | May 30, 2013 at 00:32
And third interesting book is "An Introduction to Statistical Learning: with Applications in R"
http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Statistical-Learning-Applications-Statistics/dp/1461471370/ref=pd_sim_sbs_b_2/187-4157393-6274557
Posted by: piotr | May 30, 2013 at 06:20
I have a book on R on its way as well. Learning R (due September) is an intro to the language with an emphasis on data analysis workflow. Unlike most intro books, it has lots of examples using packages from CRAN, rather than sticking to base-R.
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/mobile/0636920028352.do
Posted by: Richie Cotton | May 31, 2013 at 05:08
Anyone know the status of Frank Harrell's revisions to "Regression Modeling Strategies?"
Posted by: Mitch | June 06, 2013 at 12:43
@Mitch Frank is a super busy man, although he is also a superman to some extent. I know he was working on the revisions (using knitr) late last year, but I have no idea about the current status.
@Stelios Sfakianakis You are right that the Github repo is basically empty. I hope to make it a usable template, but I do not think the complete source document of my book will be available. I can talk to the publisher, though.
Posted by: Yihui | June 06, 2013 at 16:59
@Yihui Thanks.
Posted by: Mitch | June 07, 2013 at 11:41