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Do you feel this upgrade is a positive contribution to the R ecosystem? Feel free to add any other comments/suggestions/words of support

Yes, Oscar has provided a brilliant source of content for aspiring R users. It's a resource that benefitted greatly after Uni and I'd love to see the page evolve.

BBR may be THE greatest contributor to my R access and learning experience.

Absolutely. Whenever I am tackling a new project in R, this is the first place I go to find resources I need to start the process.

Absolutely. The Big Book of R has been an incredibly helpful resource for me as an R User. It has allowed me to learn about other tools applicable to my work such as use of R for big data, Bayesian statistics and R for teaching. I can't recommend support of this project enough!

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Yes I do! I always refer people who are new to the R programming language to the Big Book of R for various R-related books and resources. It's more convenient than sharing multiple links for different resources. The Big Book of R has proven to be a valuable tool to the R community.

Yes, the big book is currently a very useful resource, and it would be even more useful with the planned upgrades.

This upgrade will be an incredibly good return on investment - I have used the Big Book of R not only for myself, but also as a reference for research students I supervise. This is a wonderful free resource!

Absolutely. As with the CRAN task views, the Big Book of R provides a convenient overview of R's capabilities and links to a collection of relevant resources. The difference, of course, is that the Big Book of R points to books for users at all levels. Oscar does a great service to the community by maintaining the Big Book of R.

I think that the "Big Book of R" is an extraordinary resource. Any work to extend or improve it would have my complete backing since it would improve a resource which already provides value to the R community.

One thing that might help to support a proposal would be to explain why this is a "must have" rather than a "nice to have". I think that this always helps crystalise the importance in the eyes of grant reviewers.

I was a John the Baptist, evangelizing R twenty years ago to journalists -- a profession then short on numeracy. Free resources like this help bring marginal audiences to R and statistics.

The Big Book of R is an invaluable resource for the R community! We use it to find books for the R4DS book clubs. Making it more structured and searchable would aid in that use case immensely!

I have found the Big Book of R to be a very useful aspect in my R learning experience. Any upgrades to what already exists would be a net positive to the R community and the world of data science.

Nikhil Pakkattil Muraleedharan

Whatever little I know about R it is because of the tireless effort of the R community. Big Book of R by Oscar Baruffa is a herculean effort to catalogue so many stellar publication across the gamut of academic disciplines. This project is a priceless contribution to my learning and the academic development of thousands if not millions of other students.

Yes. This will immensely increase the usability of big booos of R. You have created such a great resources of R books, whenever i need to learn anything new in R , I search for it in this collection. I also recommend it to all my friends who wish to learn R.

Yes, absolutely, this has been a tremendous resource for my R learning journey and I consistently recommend it to colleagues as a resource to utilize for their R work.

Yes, I thnik this upgrade would definitely be a

The proposed upgrades would be well worth it. Making this a more stable and scalable resource, and particularly the introduction of book chapter titles, will help the wider R community long-term to find quality materials for learning and work. This is ever more important in the face of increasingly ineffective search results from eg google.

I use your Big Book of R as a central reference source for all things R. It continues to be key to my learning journey and desire to maintain relevance in data science. I whole heartedly support your improvement suggestions.

Absolutely, this is one of my go to resources, and something I always share with people looking for advise and resources.
It definitely shows up your labour..

Yes! The Big Book of R is a great contribution to our community. I recently served on a textbook committee for the Department of Mathematics at my university, and we used the Big Book of R as a starting place for curating texts.

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I think an update of the Big Book of R will really help the R community!

Definitely yes. I especially like the trending books proposal.

Absolutely! I have the big book of R bookmarked and frequently refer to it. It's so nice to have all the books in one place and searchable by topic. Out of all the planned upgrades, I'm most excited for the trending books section, new book section, and last update date field. I fully support this proposal to upgrade the Big Book of R and strongly believe it will be a positive contribution to the social infrastructure of the R ecosystem.

The Big Book of R is my go-to resources when people ask, "What are some resources for learning about R in [industry]?". I would love to see it further develop and grow. Thanks, Oscar!

The Big Book of R is a fantastic resourse for me as someone teaches R and uses it for own research. An upgrade with added functionality would improve its value for me and my students.

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This resource is so valuable in helping me rationalise and map out the R ecosystem. It's my first place to go when I am exploring a new topic. It's great to know that someone has done the work of documenting the learning resources available.

Yes, this is a very positive contribution to the R ecosystem and the environment itself for this tool is something that adds to the scientific knowledge of R. Having the Big Book of R as an available tools for both beginners and seasoned coders of R makes it easier to learn new things, as well as to find new areas of interest or existing literature on a very specific topic. No other resource like this one exists.

This is absolutely a positive contribution to the R ecosystem, and moreover the R community. There are so many resources for R out there, but relying on services like Google to find them is problematic, as the results of one's search is never exhaustive, and typically biased towards which ever resource is the current "hot topic". The Big Book of R provides an unbiased and (within reason) complete starting point for self-directed learning. For that reason I consistently provide the "big book" to students learning R as something of a tertiary resource. Not only is it a good resource, I think the motivating spirit behind the "big book" helps to communicate to newcomeRs the magnitude of the R community, and the ethos of mutual support present within it.

As a self-taught R programmer, I believe Oscar's service to the ecosystem is indispensable, and upgrading to ensure continued stability and growth of the service as a central bibliography of R textbooks furthers the accessibility of R, R resources, and the R community.

There are so many R resources out there (as the big book of R impressively shows) that a curated list of references would be really helpful, in particular for co-workers unfamiliar with R.

Yes. The Big Book of R is my go-to source for finding reading materials about techniques/approaches in R that I need to learn about. I use it myself as well as regularly directing colleagues and others to the site. The proposed changes will be a transformational upgrade that make it an even better resource than it already is.

Yes. This will be great for knowledge sharing and improving r accessibility and usability. Please fund generously.

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Absolutely! There's an abundance of R literature and this book has provided a port for it. It helps new starters and seasoned users equally and it's literally the only bookmark on R that anyone would need.

Any upgrades on the delivery method of such an important source will go a long way and increase adoption of the R language!

Yes, many people including myself benefit a lot from books such online/open resources. And the upgrades are a great, well thought, and planned contribution.

Definitely yes! R wrapper package to show the book in Rstudio pane may be helpful.

Yes, I am convinced it will be a major positive contribution. I often go to the book to search for relevant books in specific areas

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Oscar Baruffa has been consistent with providing and supporting learners across the world within the R learning ecosystem. I strongly support his passion and contribution to further improve the R ecosystem, and creating a better experience for the community. Yes, this upgrade is a positive contribution.

This would be a great contribution !
Finding all free R (maybe include Python also?) 'books' at one giant on-line library would largely facilitate searching for the right subject needed at the right moment.
Great initiative !

Absolutely! Oscar website is a very precious resource for the R community

Yes, I definitely feel this is a positive contribution. I've used the resources of the big book of r quite a bit

Yes, it provides a central location for new users to find information.
I would suggest that it be possible to download a source as a biblatex record. This will make it easier to reference the source when it is used in an academic work.

Very good idea. News items are very important !

Yes. The update would make it easier to navigate this already great resource

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As a 26 year user of R I think the upgrade will make The Big Book of R an even more indispensable resource for everyone from beginners through to experts. I regularly recommend it to those I mentor.

Yes, it’s a super useful library of resources

Definetely yes. I personally endorse the migration of the dataset to a proper relational database, and indeed the "Trending books" and the "New books" objectives.

If you teach basic/intermediate R, the books and its upgrade will reduce costs for students as they will find all the information they need in a single place, and if you are in a place where the US$ is too expensive, a free place will make our life easier and more relaxed.

Yes! The big book of R is a great help to me in my work and study.

R and the R package ecosystem are incredibly helpful tools but not self-explanatory. Thankfully there are many great books teaching us to use these tools and many are free, which contributes to improving equality in access to knowledge and scientific literacy. In this context, the Big Book of R is a great navigation help. It provides access to resources not always easy to find, but also provides visibility to book authors.

Definitely, the ‚Big Book of R‘ has become an important information hub for my work in academia. I‘m a scientist working in Forensic Genetics and Genomics (Medical University of Innsbruck, Institute of Legal Medicine), a field that requires reproducible and programmatically sound data analysis. Particularly R and it’s brilliant collection of wonderful extension packages have become indispensable tools in my work. As I never received formal training in programming and due to the ever growing number of R packages, the Big Book of R has become an important source of information and inspiration. Therefore, any further improvements on the Big Book of R would be highly welcome!

Yes. As a reader of many technical books about R, I feel that a resource like Big Book of R is incredibly useful for streamlining research into new topics.

Yes, I believe this upgrade will be most beneficial for the R community.

yes. Would like to see an R package to access the data in the Big Book of R.

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Yes, this book has helped me immensely in teaching R, as well as broadening my own skills. So, upgrades would be really beneficial to an already incredible resource of R.

Yes, I think this upgrade proposal is a great idea. I am leading in the NHSR Community training and have included a link to this site in the intro to R and Rstudio training that both volunteers and I run regularly. It can be overwhelming knowing where to start when learning R and also a source of anxiety that you are missing crucial resources (and that never goes no matter how experienced you become!).

I really like how this project has been organised and had developed over time and we've been lucky to have Oscar come to talk at the last NHSR Community conference on its current technical layout. I'll be keen to have Oscar come and give further updates to NHSR Community as the project progresses as there is so much learning from the book as there is in the compiling of it!

Absolutely. Wonderful reference source. Very handy!

Yes! Frequently recommend this site to students/colleages looking for resources to learn R, from beginners onwards.

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The Big Book of R has been a major source of learning and ideas on R for me. Until I saw this proposal I couldn’t imagine it being much better but, as ever, Oscar's creativity is amazing: the steps he suggests can only be a positive contribution, and important ones at that!

Yes. I regularly consult the Big book of R, and an enhanced version will make it even more useful

The book has become a first or second stop when looking how to do things with R. Having this resource updated and improved will help more users. It's form as a book is much easier to navigate than an awesome repo or blog post.

Big Book of R is handy, and the potential to improve the searchability of the website will be of great help to the R community.

The Big Book of R is my go-to resource whenever I need to learn something new or find specific techniques, and I love browsing its pages to stay up-to-date on the latest trends and innovations in the world of R.

What I appreciate most about it is how comprehensive it is. No matter what level you're at, from beginner to advanced, there's something in here for you.

Regular updates keep me excited about the new and exciting developments in the R community and help me stay on top of my game. I would love to see the Big Book of R upgraded to improve the functionality and accessibility of this essential R Community resource.

Yes, the Big Book of R is a fantastic free resource for R users and this upgrade will make it easier to use and help even more people use R

Thanks for your contributions. Big book R is a great book and I have learned a lot from your book. I will be happy if it continues to be upgraded according to the plan you mentioned

Big Book of R is a great knowledge source as is, though it could really need some more upgrades as stated in the proposal. I would love to see Big Book of R grow.

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The proposed enhancements will increase the site's use by educators searching for course material.

I think that "The Big Book of R" one of the most important source of good quality material related to R ecosystem. All suggested upgrade will increase even more this complete Library of R Books.

Yes - collations of topic specific, R-based articles and books are incredibly usedul

Absolute - these upgrades would vastly improve the usability of the Big Book of R and further its usefulness to the R community and ecosystem. It's been fantastic so far and I can't wait to see these improvements implemented.

For someone like me that’s new to R, the big book of R is a great go-to source. The proposed updates/upgrades would greatly improve this resource further, and bring big usability upgrades for me as a user.

Yes. The big book of R is just the pillar of any bibliography effort for any project using R.

I feel this upgrade will make a huge impact on community.

Yes, I believe that the suggested upgrades will improve the usability, visibility, and reach of The Big Book of R. As someone who recently transitioned from a commercial stats package to R, the amount of freely available resources to learn all the various aspects of R is impressive (and a credit to the wonderfully generous R community). However, that breadth of information can be overwhelming at times. A central resource like The Big Book of R makes the ecosystem easier to navigate - saving me time and frustration. The suggested updates will be extremely useful additions. The 'trending' lists and navigable tables of contents sound particularly valuable.

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Big book of R is an excellent one-stop-shop for learning R, but the website's functionality compared to the value that the user can potentially extract is still limited. Proposed updates to the website would be a positive contribution to the R ecosystem, since it improves the findability of key learning resources and improves learning experience of users.

Yes, I recommend it to anyone when they want to explore a new topic related to DS even if they aren't R users.

Francisco José Jimeno Demuth

I think it would be a great improvement on this great page.

Big Book of R is an invaluable ressource for finding great R learning ressources. It is the first ressource i share with my grad students and colleagues when talking about getting into R or stepping up their game.