[pkg-bioc] how to proceed?

[elijah wright]

> | i have to agree with dirk, here - we have to support a lab with R on the
> | machines, and it turns out that the packages of "source code from books"
> | (especially MASS and VR) are quite necessary to have available.  :)
>
> Unlucky example because these are of course in stock r-base, but:

yeah, i forgot about that.  :)  hasn't always been true, as i recall.

> -- I bought the Devore basic stats textbook /because/ Doug Bates produces one
>   (by now two) excellent packages with the examples;
> -- have used the example package for Dalgaard'd Intro R book (ISwR);
> -- should have bought the book by John MacDonald (DAAG)

in order of preference, local folks here like:

1) the MASS book
2) the Maindonald (DAAG)
3) Dalgaard's "Introductory Statistics with R".

my generation of students here learned out of DAAG, but folks have since 
settled on MASS as a slightly easier book to deal wtih.

--elijah