Hadley /Mark Mark Daniel Ward wrote: > I'll follow-up on Hadley's comment by noting that I always post the complete > R transcript of our class session, so that the students can download it and > use it. I also add lots and lots of comments to the file (after class is > over), so that they can remember what we did in class. They seem to like > this feature of my class.
> hadley wickham wrote: >> This matches my experience in a course which I taught both Excel and >> R. Most students preferred R because it was much harder to follow >> what I was doing in the GUI - where exactly was I clicking, was it a >> right or left click, etc. With R you see everything I type and it's >> very easier to reproduce. It's also much faster and easier to produce >> a page of commented R code that allows students to reproduce all the >> important steps, compared to recording a screencast to show the steps >> in Excel. I'm glad to see my experience isn't unique. I find the ability to email me a bit of code that isn't working a fanatastic feature for me. It has always been a nightmare trying to diagnose via email what some one is doing wrong with Minitab/Excel. Graham _______________________________________________ R-sig-teaching@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-teaching
