John Fox is Professor of Sociology at McMaster University. Professor Fox wrote the R Commander software, and is the author of many articles and books on statistical methods, including (with Sanford Weisberg) An R Companion to Applied Regression, Second Edition. He is an associate editor of the Journal of Statistical Software and former editor of the Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences monograph series.
. . . this is a comprehensive book written in an approachable style, that serves as a good user guide to the R Commander . . . ~Tim Downie, Journal of Statistical Software