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

• withme 12y ago
  I'm fairly certain that they are identical. Hadley got the publisher to agree to allow him to keep the website up after publishing.
  • disgruntledphd2 12y ago
    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 :)
    • hadley 12y ago
      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.
      • singingfish 12y ago
        Aah yes the old "write a book to help one remember how to do it" trick. My technical output spans a book and various places on the web. The number of times I go googling for a solution, to find an interesting text ... then I wonder who wrote it, look at the author and discover it was me. It makes me laugh and cry at the same time :)
• hadley 12y ago
  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)