acknowledgments

I would like to thank Manning Publications for the opportunity to write this book, in particular the large team behind the scenes working to bring it all together, including my editor, Jenny Stout, and the production team of Kevin Sullivan, Janet Vail, and Tiffany Taylor and technical proofreader Hilde Van Gysel. I also thank the dedicated pool of reviewers who provided invaluable feedback during the book’s development, including: Anil Venugopal, Carlos Aya Moreno, Chris Heneghan, Daniel Zingaro, Danil Mironov, Dave King, Fabien Tison, Irina Fedko, Jenice Tom, Jobinesh Purushothaman, John D. Lewis, John MacKintosh, Michael Haller, Mohammed Zuhair Al-Taie, Nii Attoh-Okine, Stuart Woodward, Tony M. Dubitsky, and Tulio Albuquerque.

I’d also like to thank the overwhelmingly helpful communities on Stack Overflow and Twitter (under the #rstats hashtag) and give a special mention to the Asciidoctor team, who have made a fantastic publishing toolchain.

I am eternally grateful to the members of the diverse and supportive R community, the majority of whom voluntarily contribute packages to improve and extend the language. The feedback, suggestions, comments, and discussions I’ve had regarding the contents of this book from reviewers, Twitter followers, and colleagues have helped shape the book into what it is today, and for that I thank each of them.