On 10/01/2010 05:05 PM, Greg Snow wrote:
I would start here:
http://www.burns-stat.com/pages/Tutor/spreadsheet_addiction.html
Then point the students to a basic tutorial about databases (or at least
MSaccess).
Or you can have them enter the data directly into R without using outside
products. Some of the GUI front ends for R have spreadsheet like interfaces,
or you can create an empty data frame with the correct column types, then use
edit/fix to enter the data in a way that feels familiar to spreadsheet users,
but prevents some of the major problems that come from abuse of spreadsheets.
Thanks! I'd forgotten about that essay. That's a nice opener. I have
never really considered R as a tool for data entry, but I'll have to
take another look at the GUIs.
Cheers,
Tyler
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