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
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
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
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
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
My teaching situation is a bit different from the others who have responded so
far. I do teach an occasional class at the university, but my main job is with
a group of hospitals and doctors doing their statistics. As part of that I
teach some classes within the hospital system to
