thanks to all for your comments jason
Dr. Iasonas Lamprianou Assistant Professor (Educational Research and Evaluation) Department of Education Sciences European University-Cyprus P.O. Box 22006 1516 Nicosia Cyprus Tel.: +357-22-713178 Fax: +357-22-590539 Honorary Research Fellow Department of Education The University of Manchester Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK Tel. 0044 161 275 3485 [email protected] --- On Sat, 24/10/09, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > From: [email protected] > <[email protected]> > Subject: R-sig-teaching Digest, Vol 26, Issue 6 > To: [email protected] > Date: Saturday, 24 October, 2009, 11:00 AM > Send R-sig-teaching mailing list > submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-teaching > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' > to > [email protected] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more > specific > than "Re: Contents of R-sig-teaching digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: introducing R (Eric Lamb) > 2. Re: introducing R (Gabor > Grothendieck) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:03:16 -0600 > From: Eric Lamb <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [R-sig-teaching] introducing R > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; > format=flowed > > I also have recieved a fair amount of pushback from > collegues who would > prefer their favorite program to be taught to graduate > students. > > When it comes to presuading people to embrace R I have > found that a > discussion of the benefits of open source software is very > effective. My > institution trains a large number of graduate students from > developing > countries who will likely have limited access to research > funds when > they return. Pointing out the benefits of training on an > open access > platform to the future research careers of these students > has gotten > many onside. The same arguement applies to students who > will be working > for small companies that cannot afford/justify a SAS > license. > > Cheers, Eric > > -- > Eric Lamb > Assistant Professor, Plant Ecology and Biostatistics > Dept. of Plant Sciences, University of Saskatchewan > http://homepage.usask.ca/egl388/index.html > > 4D68 Agriculture Building > 306-966-1799 > [email protected] > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 23:41:25 -0400 > From: Gabor Grothendieck <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [R-sig-teaching] introducing R > To: Iasonas Lamprianou <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Message-ID: > <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 3:03 AM, Iasonas Lamprianou > <[email protected]> > wrote: > > What is more, I need material in Greek. > > There is a Greek intro here: > > http://stat-athens.aueb.gr/~grstats/notes/r_giagos.pdf > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > R-sig-teaching mailing list > [email protected] > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-teaching > > > End of R-sig-teaching Digest, Vol 26, Issue 6 > ********************************************* > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-teaching
