Re: [R-sig-teaching] I need your thoughts on teaching with R

The source directory of my slides for Peter's book, Introductory Statistics with R, is available as http://www.stat.wisc.edu/~bates/ISwR.zip Those are really nice. I see you still teach t-tests and the Wilcoxon signed-rank test - is this just an artefact of following Dalgaard, or do you have

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

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

is over), so that they can remember what we did in class.  They seem to like this feature of my class. hadley wickham wrote: This matches my experience in a course which I taught both Excel and R.  Most students preferred R because it was much harder to follow what I was doing in the GUI

Re: [R-sig-teaching] workspace management

In the real world, there are also strong programming integrity reasons to hard code paths directly into our scripts. This leaves no doubt about what dataset was being analyzed, etc. The whole point of using a working directory is so that you _don't_ have to do that. Any hard coded path makes

Re: [R-sig-teaching] adding plus/minus 1 standard devaition into each bar in cluster bar chart

Before doing that, I'd highly recommend reading http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/twiki/pub/Main/TatsukiRcode/Poster3.pdf Hadley On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Ali Zanaty zanaty2...@yahoo.com wrote: Dear All R users: I hope that this message finds all of you well. Currently, I am teaching

Re: [R-sig-teaching] Read *.xlsx data file into R

Note that gdata::read.xls requires perl, which can be a hassle to install. Hadley On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 9:22 AM, Tim Bates wrote: > your question is vague. > > For those who need to read xlsx files, I’ve been having great results with > the “gdata” package, and it’s

Re: [R-sig-teaching] Teaching R in high school and college science and math courses

> I agree that R-SIG-Teaching is an appropriate place to keep this > topic going. To us non-Americans, can you explain "AP > Statistics" to us and possibly use URLs when you mention > websites? AP = advanced placement. It's an advanced high-school class that students can elect to take (typically

Re: [R-sig-teaching] R for introductory epidemiology for MPH students--base or with a package or two?

David Robinson has a nice blog post on the subject: http://varianceexplained.org/r/teach-tidyverse/ Hadley On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 3:30 PM, Christopher W. Ryan wrote: > I'll be teaching intro epidemiology in a new MPH program, starting this > fall. Weekly sessions, each 3 hours long. Expecting