The link was only showing the latest 10 titles by default, the series stretches back to about 2006 or so (look for the 'Show all 46 results' link). I'm looking at the title page for one right now and it's (c) Springer 2009.
I own several books in this series, some are better than others but in general I've found them very helpful. On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 11:22 AM, David Kirkby <david.kir...@onetel.net>wrote: > On 6 May 2013 02:00, rjf <fate...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > On Thursday, May 2, 2013 1:27:30 PM UTC-7, William wrote: > >> > >> Hi Sage-Developers, > >> > >> There is a big series of small books about R that Springer publishes: > >> > >> http://www.springer.com/series/6991?detailsPage=titles > >> > >> The editorial director of that series at Springer just talked with me > >> on the phone for a while, and he says these are among "Springers best > >> selling books"; moreover, he believes they have a major impact on > >> making R a really viable platform for computational statistics. > >> > >> > > Am I the only one who finds this implausible? > > Here's an article on R > > > http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/technology/business-computing/07program.html?pagewanted=all > > and it doesn't mention Springer. > > No, you are not the only one to find it implausible - I was suspicious > of that claim the minute I read it. Then I looked at the link William > gave. The earilest of that series appears to be published in 2012, but > R has been popular and viable for a very long time - well before 2012. > > Dave > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-devel" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
