Bob Muenchen has made a career out of helping people transition from proprietary software (SAS, Stats, and SPSS) to R. His website r4stats.com is definitely worth checking out.
He's also a super nice guy and I'm sure he'd be happy to share his thoughts/perspective if you reach out. Sincerely, Nick -- Nick Carchedi Director of Course Development [email protected] | 617-775-9373 On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 3:12 AM, Michael Spencer <[email protected]> wrote: > It would certainly be useful in the land economy team here (SRUC). As you > mention, it seems to be an economist thing. > > I'd be happy to chip in help, but have never used stata. I am proficient > in R, though. > > Mike > > On 9 February 2017 at 23:23, Garret S. Christensen <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> Does anyone else encounter a lot of Stata users in their field? Are there >> good existing resources for teaching R to these folks, or would anyone be >> interested in helping me develop/curate them? >> >> I'm an economist, and I'd say 80+% of our work (mine included) is in >> Stata. I've seen a few things along this line (Mostly Harmless >> Econometrics <https://github.com/vikjam/mostly-harmless-replication> in >> R, Stata, Python, and Julia, a quick dplyr guide >> <http://johnricco.github.io/2016/06/14/stata-dplyr/>) but no lesson. >> I've taught a couple workshops on reproducible research at the World Bank, >> and I know their big data/programming people would be happy if more of the >> researchers their learned R and its dynamic documents capabilities. >> >> Thanks, >> Garret >> >> -- >> Garret Christensen, PhD >> Assistant Project Scientist, Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the >> Social Sciences <http://bitss.org> >> Data Science Fellow, Berkeley Institute for Data Science >> <http://bids.berkeley.edu> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.software-carpentry.org/listinfo/discuss >> > > > > -- > > Website: http://mikerspencer.com > Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikerspencer > Twitter: https://twitter.com/MikeRSpencer > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/listinfo/discuss >
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