Re: [R-sig-teaching] purpose of list

2009-07-02 Thread Antonio P. Ramos
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Robert W. Hayden hay...@mv.mv.com wrote: Right now I am trying to remember how to get a scatterplot with boxplots of x and y separately in the margin. I think I need one of the packages but I don't know which. car library by John Fox has a function that does

Re: [R-sig-teaching] purpose of list

2009-07-02 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 12:07 AM, Antonio P. Ramosramos.grad.stud...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Robert W. Hayden hay...@mv.mv.com wrote: Right now I am trying to remember how to get a scatterplot with boxplots of x and y separately in the margin.  I think I need one of the

Re: [R-sig-teaching] purpose of list

2009-06-30 Thread hadley wickham
As a casual observation I am now in my third year of teaching basic statistics to biology/ecology students with a mix of Minitab and R. Outside the formal teaching, I have used R with selected students for 6 or 7 years (students who want to work at home, students with Macs/Linux at home, and

Re: [R-sig-teaching] purpose of list

2009-06-30 Thread Mark Daniel Ward
I'll follow-up on Hadley's comment by noting that I always post the complete R transcript of our class session, so that the students can download it and use it. I also add lots and lots of comments to the file (after class is over), so that they can remember what we did in class. They seem

Re: [R-sig-teaching] purpose of list

2009-06-30 Thread hadley wickham
I spent a lot of time focussing on code as communication to make electronic interaction as easy as possible. Personally, I think this is very important as the majority of my programming work is in collaboration with others spread around the world, who I might see in person at most once a year. I

Re: [R-sig-teaching] purpose of list

2009-06-30 Thread Graham Smith
Mark   Actually, I love to communicate with the students by email, but I find it a nightmare when they email me any code!  Sometimes a 1-minute verbal explanation will take several paragraphs to clarify by email. I agree, but a) I only lecture part time, (I do ecological consultancy the

Re: [R-sig-teaching] purpose of list

2009-06-30 Thread Greg Snow
-Original Message- From: r-sig-teaching-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-sig-teaching- boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Robert W. Hayden Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 5:33 AM To: Liviu Andronic Cc: R-sig-teaching@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R-sig-teaching] purpose of list I had