Posts Tagged ‘ publishing ’

Blog planets are like conferences… (aka R-bloggers.com)

August 8, 2011
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Blog planets are like conferences… (aka R-bloggers.com)

Blog planets are websites that aggregate blog feeds around a particular topic or project. It is probably called after one of its first implementations, the Planet software. These planets are like conferences, rather than journals. Like conferences with...

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R Beginner’s Guide Book Update 10/1/2010

October 1, 2010
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R Beginner’s Guide Book Update 10/1/2010

I recently submitted the final drafts of all chapters of my R Beginner's Guide book, which is to be published through Packt. The official publishing timeline is set to December 2010, although the book may release ahead of schedule if all continues to g...

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R Beginner’s Guide Book Update 7/19/2010

July 19, 2010
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R Beginner’s Guide Book Update 7/19/2010

I am excited to announce that I have submitted the entire first draft of my R Beginner's Guide book, which is to be published through Packt. The tenth and final chapter was submitted a full month ahead of schedule. The printed book could become availab...

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Chinese versus Japanese editions

March 8, 2010
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Chinese versus Japanese editions

Last week, I got news from Springer Verlag about possibly two new editions of my books, one in Chinese and one in Japanese. These were bad news and good news: the bad news was that the Chinese edition was actually a reprint of our original book,  Monte Carlo Statistical Method, by a Chinese publishing...

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