st: RE: R for Stata Users

[jhilbe@aol.com]

Several Statalisters emailed me in the past month asking to advise them 
when "R for Stata Users"
(Springer) would be finally published. There was a delay in printing 
all new Springer books due to new
software they obtained, which was to be used for printing both hard and 
electrinic copy. When Springer
tried it, the software failed and produced various problems. Fixes had 
to be made, which took time.
Anyhow, the book was published May 7th. I just received my copies 
yesterday.

The book,  by Robert Muenchen (Univ of Tennessee) -- author of "R for 
SAS and SPSS Users" --
and myself, was written for those Stata users who also want to learn R. 
Many journal articles and
books use R for examples. To better understand them it is necessary to 
obtain a basic knowledge of
R - which this text aims to teach. I in no way would ever give up Stata 
as my primary, and foremost,
statistical application. Stata is much easier to use than R and has a 
truly wide range of capabilities --
and I just like it. But, if you do find yourself in need of learning R, 
for whatever reason, we have tried
to make it easier by focusing on the functional relationships that 
exist between Stata and R.

Joseph Hilbe







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