Thank you all very much for setting this up. Valuable indeed.
Steven McKinney Statistician Molecular Oncology and Breast Cancer Program British Columbia Cancer Research Centre > -----Original Message----- > From: ESS-help [mailto:ess-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Dirk > Eddelbuettel via ESS-help > Sent: April-15-21 5:59 PM > To: ess-help@r-project.org > Subject: [ESS] Announcing ‘Introductions to Emacs Speaks Statistics' > > This email came from an EXTERNAL SENDER. If you think this message is > suspicious, please do not open any attached files or links, and forward it > as an attachment to spamm...@bccrc.ca > > > > (This is a text-only, no-links copy of what I just put onto my blog at > http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2021/04/15#announcing_ess_intros > where you find it with links. The key site is https://ess-intro.github.io.) > > Announcing ‘Introductions to Emacs Speaks Statistics’ > > A new website containing introductory videos and slide decks is now > available > for your perusal at ess-intro.github.io. It provides a series of > introductions to the excellent Emacs Speaks Statistics (ESS) mode for the > Emacs editor. > > This effort started following my little tips, tricks, tools and toys series > of short videos and slide decks “for the command-line and R, > broadly-speaking”. Which I had mentioned to friends curious about Emacs, > and > on the ess-help mailing list. And lo and behold, over the fall and winter > sixteen of us came together in one GitHub org and are now proud to present > the initial batch of videos about first steps, installing, using with > spaceemacs, customizing, and org-mode with ESS. More may hopefully fellow, > the group is open and you too can join: see the main repo and its wiki. > > This is in fact the initial announcement post, so it is flattering that we > have already received over 350 views, four comments and twenty-one likes. > > We hope it proves to be a useful starting point for some of you. The Emacs > editor is quite uniquely powerful, and coupled with ESS makes for a rather > nice environment for programming with data, or analysing, visualising, > exploring, … data. But we are not zealots: there are many editors and > environments under the sun, and most people are perfectly happy with their > choice, which is wonderful. We also like ours, and sometimes someone asks > ‘tell me more’ or ‘how do I start’. We hope this series satisifies this > initial curiousity and takes it from here. > > With that, my thanks to Frédéric, Alex, Tyler and Greg for the initial > batch, > and for everybody else in the org who chipped in with comments and > suggestion. We hope it grows from here, so happy Emacsing with R from us! > > > For the group, Dirk > > > -- > https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org > > ______________________________________________ > ESS-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help ______________________________________________ ESS-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help
