You could do much worse than Bill Venables' short course presentation given at UseR 2012.
Keep up the good work! Michael On Aug 13, 2012, at 3:13 PM, clangkamp <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Everyone > > In the Contributed Documentation part of the R Project website there are > dozens of various documents explaining this and that on R. Furthermore there > is also the document "Introduction to R". In my thesis I have been using R > here and there, so I would classify myself as an intermediate user after > about 3 years of using it, but I am in no sense a professional. > > I am now on a guest research trip to another University, and there a few > people have asked me to "spread the word", hinting even at me giving a > presentation on R and the blessings it brings. I feel mightily uncomfortable > with that, but what the heck. I have been now looking for an "official > Introduction to R" in Presentation Format, but lo, there isn't one. There > are a few tutorials on the web, but none are really a classical > introduction. > > I have no bad conscience about taking a premade presentation by someone else > (and yes, in todays context of plagiarised, fully citing them etc.), knowing > that it is actually well designed to present R and doesn't talk gibberish, > > The closest I found was by Tyler K. Perrachione from MIT, which I think I > might use if push comes to shove, but I wanted to ask whether anyone of you > knows of a "official version" by one of the Core Project members ? > > Christian > > > > ----- > Christian Langkamp > christian.langkamp-at-gmxpro.de > > -- > View this message in context: > http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Standard-introductory-presentation-tp4640199.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
