thanks, just what I was looking for! unfortunately I see here, that there seems to be a large part of the book spent on a statistics introduction (including R)

thanks, just what I was looking for! unfortunately I see here, that there seems to be a large part of the book spent on a statistics introduction (including R) and only one machine learning algorithm actually gets introduced. and on top of all it's one of the most simple ones (naive bayes). I expected at least some further description of support vector machines or other advanced techniques.