At 10:21 AM 9/29/2003 -0600, Aniko Szabo wrote:
Hi everyone!
I am planning to use R and Rcmdr in a basic stat course. I have no access to a computer lab, but I can expect all students to have a laptop. Of couse, I have no control over their OS and in my experience several of them will have Macs. I have Windows. My question is the following: can I expect them to be able to install R, Tcl/Tk and Rcmdr (i.e. does anybody has experinece with it?) Are there any installation tricks/tips/instructions you can help me with?
I was hoping that a Mac user would pick up this question, since I have no direct experience using the Rcmdr package on a Mac. I've been told by several people that the package works fine under OS X. You do need to have the tcltk package installed, and of course Tcl/Tk.
I've been using R with the Rcmdr package in an introductory social statistics class this fall. Remarkably, every one of the approximately 50 students in the class has a Windows computer. I distributed a Windows CD/ROM with a pre-installed copy of R that runs from a batch file and loads the Rcmdr package on startup. The CD also contains the Windows R installer, all of the contributed Windows binary packages on CRAN, all the data for the course, and complete installation instructions. I told students that they could run the software from the CD/ROM, but that it would perform better if installed on their computers, and as near as I can tell, most seem to have installed it successfully. So far, everything seems to be going smoothly.
I've prepared an introduction to the R Commander that's specific to my class but may be of more general interest; you can find a copy at <http://socserv.socsci.mcmaster.ca/jfox/Courses/soc3h6/R-Commander.pdf>. I plan eventually to revise this document to make it more general.
I hope that this helps, John ----------------------------------------------------- John Fox Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4M4 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 905-525-9140x23604 web: www.socsci.mcmaster.ca/jfox
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