The special issue of CHANCE on George Casella’s books has now appeared and it contains both my earlier post on George passing away and reviews of several of his books, as follows:
- Andrew Gelman on Introducing Monte Carlo Methods with R
- Bill Strawderman on Statistical Inference
- Jean-Louis Foulley on Variance Components
- Larry Wasserman on Theory of Point Estimation
- Xiao-Li Meng on Monte Carlo Statistical Methods
Although all of those books have appeared between twenty and five years ago, the reviews are definitely worth reading! (Disclaimer: I am the editor of the Books Review section who contacted friends of George to write the reviews, as well as the co-author of two of those books!) They bring in my (therefore biased) opinion a worthy evaluation of the depths and impacts of those major books, and they also reveal why George was a great teacher, bringing much into the classroom and to his students… (Unless I am confused the whole series of reviews is available to all, and not only to CHANCE subscribers. Thanks, Sam!)
what’s wrong with package comment?!
Posted in Books, R, Statistics, University life with tags comment package, Introducing Monte Carlo Methods with R, LaTeX, R, verbatim on May 4, 2012 by xi'anI spent most of the Sunday afternoon trying to understand why defining
[sourcecode language=”text” gutter=”false”]
\newcommand{\era}{\end{comment}}
[/sourcecode]
did not have the same effect as writing the line
[sourcecode language=”text” gutter=”false”]
\end{comment}
[/sourcecode]
until I found there is a clash due to the comment package… The assuredly simple code
[sourcecode language=”text” gutter=”false”]
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{comment}
\begin{document}
\begin{comment}
prompt, you could embark on an on-line visit of the main features of {\tt R} by typing \verb+demo()+ after the prompt (make sure to test \verb+demo(image)+ and \verb+demo(graphics)+ to get an idea of the
\era
Self-explanatory.
\end{document}
[/sourcecode]
produces an error message:
[sourcecode language=”text” gutter=”false”]
Runaway argument?
! File ended while scanning use of \next.
<inserted text>
\par
<*> moretest.tex
[/sourcecode]
This is quite an inconvenience as I need to compile my solution manual for “Introducing Monte Carlo Methods with R” with the even-numbered exercises commented out or not depending on the version… (Leaving this package out and using the comment command within the verbatim package does not work either because era does not seem to be recognised as the end of a commented part…)
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