I had some minor role in the creation of this list. At times I have complained that members have been too harsh in redirecting queries whose proper home seemed to me debatable. But as time has gone on I have to admit that too much (most?) of the traffic on this list is about how to make R work rather than how to use it in education. So, trying to think positively, let me toss out some general EDUCATIONAL questions. How are people using R for educational purposes? What do people think of the various GUI or alternate (e.g., spreadsheet) interfaces? Is there anything that makes R as easy to use for beginners as, say, Minitab? What about using R for educational simulations? Is R the tool for replacing what George Cobb calls a "Ptolemaic curriculum"?
http://repositories.cdlib.org/uclastat/cts/tise/vol1/iss1/art1/ If anyone wants to respond it might help to briefly describe your student audience. While I am attracted to the power of R, many of the folks who ask me about R are attracted by the price. That is especially important in a number of contexts I work with: my own online courses where we have no computer labs for students who must get their own software, often paying full single-copy prices public high schools in the U.S. where student computer access at school is limited and it is very helpful to give students something they can install on a computer at home people teaching in less wealthy nations > On 6/29/09, Martin Maechler <maech...@stat.math.ethz.ch> wrote: > > Wrong Mailing List !! > > > > Please use R-help for R questions! > > > <skip> > > AA> Assume I have the following data sets: > > > Also, please send reproducible code with dummy data. Assuming the data > is too abstract to think of a solution; and you haven't even mentioned > the exact R function that you wanted to use. > Best regards, > Liviu > > _______________________________________________ > R-sig-teaching@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-teaching > -------> First-time AP Stats. teacher? Help is on the way! See http://courses.ncssm.edu/math/Stat_Inst/Stats2007/Bob%20Hayden/Relief.html Robert W. Hayden in the old library at 212 Main Street (P. O. Box 450) North Troy, VT 05859 phone (802) 988-2587 web site http://statland.org/ email bob statland.org (add your own "@" and save me some spam) _______________________________________________ R-sig-teaching@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-teaching