I was at the USCOTS conference in Ohio and found myself attending a demonstration on the statcrunch software, which I hadn't seen until then. As far as it goes the software is fine, but what was very interesting to me was the statcrunch.com website. As described there, this is set up to allow easy sharing of data sets, code and reports along with surveys etc. There were an enormous number of data sets (13000, reports etc. that were posted by instructors and students). The site is so successful a publisher now runs it.
I currently put such files on my personal web site for my students to download. I have also enjoyed using materials from many other websites, such as those discussed in a recent thread. However, I think it might be extremely beneficial from a student perspective to have an one spot where they can find the work of many people oriented around teaching and learning R. Some site with good search abilities, some well chosen organization and a relatively modern look. I know there are a bunch of interesting web sites for R beyond the main one: CRANtastic, the R-Wiki, the graph gallery, ... but none seem oriented towards the exchange of data and techniques that are used to teach with R. Does anyone else think such a resource might be useful to the point where it was actually used? Are there other ideas where a common place for such information is value added? If this seems like a good idea, does anyone know if there is some off-the-shelf content management system that is well suited towards such? --John _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-teaching
