Forwarded message: From: "Douglas Bates" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> I also see R as a way of removing some of the material in our courses
> that is no longer necessary.
I have worked with textbook publishers and I think the catch here is
that they want to include as large a market as possible. So if you
write a text integrating R, it won't sell to those using SPSS. The
net effect is that texts are stuck at the NO-technology level, afraid
to adopt anything. I like to teach statistics by bringing a data set
to class and providing an analysis there. The useful stuff that
appears in textbooks is then footnotes along the way. I'd like to
write a textbook that works this way, but it would have to use some
specific software, and publishers don't want that. I have thought of
creating something and just putting it on the WWW, in the manner of
Jim Hefferon's linear algebra textbook:
http://joshua.smcvt.edu/linearalgebra/
just down the road from me.
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