Advanced R by Hadley Wickham

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Post by sonabinu » Fri, Apr 17, 2015, 2:39 PM UTC

Advanced R by Hadley Wickham
adv-r.had.co.nz

Re: Advanced R by Hadley Wickham

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Post by phren0logy » Fri, Apr 17, 2015, 7:21 PM UTC

Hadlye Wickham has done some amazing work in R (ggplot2, plyr and dplyr). Despite R being a bit weird and annoying at times, his packages continue to make it the most compelling option for data analysis (though Julia is catching up!).

Thanks, Hadley, for all the hard work.

Re: Advanced R by Hadley Wickham

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Post by velodrome » Fri, Apr 17, 2015, 7:36 PM UTC

Advanced R (Chapman & Hall/CRC The R Series) by Hadley Wickham

http://www.amazon.com/dp/1466586966/

How is the book compared to the site?

Re: Advanced R by Hadley Wickham

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Post by withme » Fri, Apr 17, 2015, 7:43 PM UTC

velodrome wrote: post #3

Advanced R (Chapman & Hall/CRC The R Series) by Hadley Wickham http://www.amazon.com/dp/1466586966/ How is the book compared to the site?

I'm fairly certain that they are identical. Hadley got the publisher to agree to allow him to keep the website up after publishing.

Re: Advanced R by Hadley Wickham

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Post by disgruntledphd2 » Fri, Apr 17, 2015, 7:47 PM UTC

withme wrote: post #4

velodrome wrote: post #3

Advanced R (Chapman & Hall/CRC The R Series) by Hadley Wickham http://www.amazon.com/dp/1466586966/ How is the book compared to the site?

I'm fairly certain that they are identical. Hadley got the publisher to agree to allow him to keep the website up after publishing.

Well yes, but the interface to the site is much more annoying than the book (which is rather cheap for a textbook of this sort).

YMMV, but I got much more from the book than from the site, and was also able to give hadley some money in the process, so its win-win :)

Re: Advanced R by Hadley Wickham

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Post by baldfat » Fri, Apr 17, 2015, 8:05 PM UTC

I worked through parts of the book (especially the functional programming section). It is very well thought out and presented logically and clearly.

This has to be the effect of him doing live confresses and being a professor while also knowing the packages as only an author can.

It is also great how approachable Hadley is in the community. I still remember making a short tweet on dplyr and within 10 minutes he replied back to me and answered my questions.

Re: Advanced R by Hadley Wickham

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Post by hadley » Fri, Apr 17, 2015, 8:38 PM UTC

baldfat wrote: post #6

I worked through parts of the book (especially the functional programming section). It is very well thought out and presented logically and clearly. This has to be the effect of him doing live confresses and being a professor while also knowing the packages as only an author can. It is also great how approachable Hadley is in the community. I still remember making a short tweet on dplyr and within 10 minutes he repli…

Thanks for the kind words!

Re: Advanced R by Hadley Wickham

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Post by IndianAstronaut » Fri, Apr 17, 2015, 8:39 PM UTC

phren0logy wrote: post #2

Hadlye Wickham has done some amazing work in R (ggplot2, plyr and dplyr). Despite R being a bit weird and annoying at times, his packages continue to make it the most compelling option for data analysis (though Julia is catching up!). Thanks, Hadley, for all the hard work.

Hadley has actually made R my go to for data analysis. Great graphics, elegant syntax with dplyr, and his work with Shiny.

Re: Advanced R by Hadley Wickham

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Post by hadley » Fri, Apr 17, 2015, 8:42 PM UTC

disgruntledphd2 wrote: post #5

withme wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm fairly certain that they are identical. Hadley got the publisher to agree to allow him to keep the website up after publishing.

Well yes, but the interface to the site is much more annoying than the book (which is rather cheap for a textbook of this sort). YMMV, but I got much more from the book than from the site, and was also able to give hadley some money in the process, so its win-win :)

Personally I prefer the website because I can normally remember which chapter something is in, and then I can find-in-page to quickly jump to what I was thinking about.

Re: Advanced R by Hadley Wickham

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Post by hadley » Fri, Apr 17, 2015, 8:46 PM UTC

velodrome wrote: post #3

Advanced R (Chapman & Hall/CRC The R Series) by Hadley Wickham http://www.amazon.com/dp/1466586966/ How is the book compared to the site?

They're basically identical. The website is updated a bit more frequently, but the updates are mainly minor wording fixes, and get incorporated whenever the book gets re-printed (every 6-12 months)