Probably you may be curious about the mysterious author of "Statistiques avec R" as well as me. He seems a mathematician. I found one more extraordinary work of him.
http://tex.loria.fr/prod-graph/zoonekynd/metapost/metapost.html
He made Metapost (a kind of Metafont software which produces ps outputs) a statistical graphics software. Look and have a fun!
Vincent Zoonekynd is *not* the creator of Metapost. John D. Hobby is (cf. http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/hobby/index.html).
Vincent Zoonekynd indeed has a ph.D. in maths from the university of Paris 7 (Jussieu). On his homepage (http://zoonek.free.fr/), he says he is looking for a job in computer science or bioinformatics (last update: october 2003). The job market is very gloomy for young scientists in France. I do not know if he's looking for a job in a foreign country, but his CV indicates that he speaks English, and has a medium level in Japanese.
He wrote the "Statistiques avec R" notes while learning R. I like these pages very much too, but they are notes taken by a mathematician learning statistics. In some parts, he has not yet fully grasped all the concepts (but he indicates this, and he's stressing that this is a work in progress). This remark does not detract from the quality and the usefulness of his work.
Christophe Pallier http://www.pallier.org
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