I saw this: https://gist.github.com/bishboria/8326b17bbd652f34566a and was kind of bored so I decided I had to do the scrapping excersise the R way to put up the statistics books full list with direct links in a single place.
You can see the current list of open stat books at Springer or re-run the script yourself.
At the time I ran the scripts these were the books that appeared as open:
- All statistics books
- Books from the Springer Texts in Statistics series
- Books from the Lecture Notes in Statistics series
(They are ordered chronollogically which is how they appear in Springer).
The next day "Springer had pulled the free plug" on most books so I thought it wasn't worth uploding the repo. I decided to upload it anyways for my own reference (I guess it's still a nice scrapping excersise).
The .r script produces the three .md files and is rather generic so it can be easily modified to make (or download, see the final comment in the script) other book lists on Springer - including non-open books (which can't be downloaded but should have working links to the official page).