Tibshirani and Hastie are two of my favorite authors covering machine learning. Hastie even makes Elements of Statistical Learning available for free as a PDF on his website [1].
I've done the John Hopkins R Class on Coursera and was looking for more practice material and found this! It's for others who are looking just like me ...
http://www.r-bloggers.com/in-depth-introduction-to-machine-l...