It's been a while since I've read it, but I was one of the technical readers for this book—and now that it's done, I need to dig it out and look at it again. I

It's been a while since I've read it, but I was one of the technical readers for this book—and now that it's done, I need to dig it out and look at it again. I wanted to get involved in reading this one because of all the great stuff I'd heard about R (mostly on HN, but also from someone I know in the Ruby community who is deeply into stats and speaks highly of R). I found this book really useful when I was reviewing it because I really was coming from a near-zero background (I last studied statistics in '92). The sad part is that I didn't have a job where doing this sort of analysis would have helped; with what I'm working on now, that may change. I liked the book, but unfortunately didn't have anything to which I could apply it. It's great to have my reviewer's copy because now I can go through it again and try to find things to apply it to.