This is a gem of a book. It will become the book I give PhD stu­dents when they are learn­ing how to write good R code. That is, if I ever see it again. I had hoped to write a review of it, but I haven’t seen it since it arrived in the mail a cou­ple of weeks ago because a research stu­dent or research assis­tant has always had it on loan. I guess that’s a tes­ta­ment to how use­ful it is.

So instead of a review, here is the table of con­tents to give the flavour of what it covers:

Other peo­ple have reviewed the book includ­ing Joseph Rick­ert, Nathan Yau and Bryan Bell, as well as a few peo­ple on Ama­zon (with ten 5-​​star reviews to date!).

At less then $25, you have lit­tle to lose — head over to Ama­zon and buy a copy now! If a few of my PhD stu­dents buy their own copies, I might get mine back.

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