Not really an answer but since you said something about "blessings" and "spreading the word": I have a small presentation introducing the time saving aspects of R comparing it to a programme called Statistica that I used to use but that I now use mainly to convert its native files to a rreadable format:)
http://psych.ut.ee/~nek/ajutine/corr.pdf On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 12:28 AM, R. Michael Weylandt <[email protected]> <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. ______________________________________________ [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.
