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Errata for R Cookbook, Second Edition

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Version Location Description Submitted By Date submitted Date corrected
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Page 13
Figure 1-4. and the next paragraph

in the first paragraph:
"The two links in the Base R Reference section are especially useful:"

and there is no "Base R Reference" section in the Figure.

Note from the Author or Editor:
changed in GitHub https://github.com/CerebralMastication/R-Cookbook/commit/f853181a544ace16f53c817e33a6431f33d230c4

RBK  Jul 05, 2019  Nov 15, 2019
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Page 18
1 paragraph

the output of "help(package = "tseries")" is missing.

Note from the Author or Editor:
fixed in GitHub https://github.com/CerebralMastication/R-Cookbook/commit/f853181a544ace16f53c817e33a6431f33d230c4

RBK  Jul 09, 2019  Nov 15, 2019
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Page 106
5 paragraph

"Now the vector col_vec contains the column numbers of our named table,"

there is no vector name col_vec. According to the context, it should be table_range_col_num

pls check

Note from the Author or Editor:
fixed in GitHub https://github.com/CerebralMastication/R-Cookbook/commit/f853181a544ace16f53c817e33a6431f33d230c4

RBK  Jul 14, 2019  Nov 15, 2019
Printed
Page 192
Solution of section 6.7

code in solution

df %>%
mutate(
case_when...

should be

df %>%
mutate(
my_field = case_when...

Note from the Author or Editor:
changed in GitHub commit https://github.com/CerebralMastication/R-Cookbook/commit/f853181a544ace16f53c817e33a6431f33d230c4

Ed Sweeney  Aug 17, 2019  Nov 15, 2019
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Page 207
4nd paragraph

The example doesn't match the description

The description:

"The following example starts with the year/ month/day numbers for the third Wednesday in January of several years and then combines them all into Date objects:"

The example: ( note the dates doesn't look like 3rd Wed of Jan
years <- 2010:2014
months <- rep(1, 5)
days <- 5:9
ISOdate(years, months, days)
#> [1] "2010-01-05 12:00:00 GMT" "2011-01-06 12:00:00 GMT"
#> [3] "2012-01-07 12:00:00 GMT" "2013-01-08 12:00:00 GMT"
#> [5] "2014-01-09 12:00:00 GMT"
as.Date(ISOdate(years, months, days))
#> [1] "2010-01-05" "2011-01-06" "2012-01-07" "2013-01-08" "2014-01-09"

by the way, description here is matching with the example in the first edition of this book.

Note from the Author or Editor:
fixed in GitHub https://github.com/CerebralMastication/R-Cookbook/commit/f853181a544ace16f53c817e33a6431f33d230c4

RBK  Jul 17, 2019  Nov 15, 2019
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Page 345
2nd paragraph

in the summary the R2 values are:

"# Multiple R-squared: 0.885, Adjusted R-squared: 0.882"

in the description, says

"we would use 0.8815, not 0.8851"

the values are not match.

Note from the Author or Editor:
Confirmed and fixed in GitHub commit https://github.com/CerebralMastication/R-Cookbook/commit/f853181a544ace16f53c817e33a6431f33d230c4

RBK  Aug 22, 2019  Nov 15, 2019
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Page 418
last paragraph

in the last paragraph, there setup a example for pi simulation.

use 2,500,000 points

however, in the next page, in the example code and the result description

it becomes 5,000,000 points

Note from the Author or Editor:
confirmed and fixed wording in https://github.com/CerebralMastication/R-Cookbook/commit/f853181a544ace16f53c817e33a6431f33d230c4

RBK  Jul 29, 2019  Nov 15, 2019
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Page 419
2nd paragraph

in the 2nd paragraph:

"Now let’s take the exact same process but run it through future_map to run it in parallel:"

it says "exact same process"

it is muti-thread in the end as explained in the next paragraph



please clarify the wording for parallel tech.

Note from the Author or Editor:
fixed in https://github.com/CerebralMastication/R-Cookbook/commit/a695b5a82063fc539c4dddbb9b7d7fb422ee2ad2

RBK  Jul 29, 2019  Nov 15, 2019
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Page 443
1 paragraph

The text under Figure 13-4 saying that "the first two components capture much of the variance..."

however, the Figure 13-4 shows only 1 component captures most of the variance.

pls check

Note from the Author or Editor:
confirmed as error. Changed in GitHub: https://github.com/CerebralMastication/R-Cookbook/commit/f853181a544ace16f53c817e33a6431f33d230c4

RBK  Aug 23, 2019  Nov 15, 2019
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Page 456
5nd paragraph

the first line of example code is duplicataed

"
Or use / to select ranges including months:
ibm['2009/201001'] # all of 2009 plus Jan 2010
ibm['2009/201001'] # all of 2009 plus Jan 2010 <<<<<<<
ibm['200906/201005'] # June 2009 through May 2010
"

Note from the Author or Editor:
fixed in GitHub https://github.com/CerebralMastication/R-Cookbook/commit/f853181a544ace16f53c817e33a6431f33d230c4

RBK  Jul 30, 2019  Nov 15, 2019
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Page 462
last paragraph

in the last paragraph:

"We can use the zoo function na.approx to fill our missing values using a cubic spline:"

na.approx is simple interpolation, and not in the example at all.

===================================
in the next paragraph:
"To get around this instability, we could get some data points from before January 1, 1999, then interpolate using na.spline, or we could simply choose a different interpolation method."

the function which performs spline is "na.spline"

===================================
however, i did a quick check, in zoo document, i can't find na.spline function??

https://www.rdocumentation.org/packages/zoo/versions/1.8-6



Note from the Author or Editor:
fixed in GitHub commit

https://github.com/CerebralMastication/R-Cookbook/commit/f853181a544ace16f53c817e33a6431f33d230c4

RBK  Jul 30, 2019  Nov 15, 2019