Rob Calver wrote an interesting invitation on the R mailing list today, inviting potential authors to submit their vision of the next great book about R. The announcement originated from the Chapman & Hall/CRC publishing houses, backed up by an impressive team of R celebrities, chosen as the editors of this new R books series, including:

• John M. Chambers
• Torsten Hothorn
• Duncan Temple Lang
• Hadley Wickham

Bellow is the complete announcement:

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We are pleased to announce the launch of a new series of books on R.

Chapman & Hall/CRC: The R Series

Aims and Scope

This book series reflects the recent rapid growth in the development and application of R, the programming language and software environment for statistical computing and graphics. R is now widely used in academic research, education, and industry. It is constantly growing, with new versions of the core software released regularly and more than 2,600 packages available. It is difficult for the documentation to keep pace with the expansion of the software, and this vital book series provides a forum for the publication of books covering many aspects of the development and application of R.

• The scope of the series is wide, covering three main threads:
• Applications of R to specific disciplines such as biology, epidemiology, genetics, engineering, finance, and the social sciences.
• Using R for the study of topics of statistical methodology, such as linear and mixed modeling, time series, Bayesian methods, and missing data.
• The development of R, including programming, building packages, and graphics.

The books will appeal to programmers and developers of R software, as well as applied statisticians and data analysts in many fields. The books will feature detailed worked examples and R code fully integrated into the text, ensuring their usefulness to researchers, practitioners and students.

Series Editors

• John M. Chambers (Department of Statistics, Stanford University, USA; [email protected])
• Torsten Hothorn (Institut f?r Statistik, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t, M?nchen, Germany; [email protected])
• Duncan Temple Lang (Department of Statistics, University of California, Davis, USA; [email protected])
• Hadley Wickham (Department of Statistics, Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA; [email protected])

Call for Proposals

We are interested in books covering all aspects of the development and application of R software. If you have an idea for a book, please contact one of the series editors above or one of the Chapman & Hall/CRC statistics acquisitions editors below. Please provide brief details of topic, audience, aims and scope, and include an outline if possible.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Best regards,

• Rob Calver ([email protected])
• David Grubbs ([email protected])
• John Kimmel ([email protected])