Hello A bit late to the party..
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 4:47 AM, Christopher W Ryan <[email protected]> wrote: > Now I have to put my money where my mouth is. I've offered to visit a > high school and introduce R to some fairly advanced students > participating in a longitudinal 3-year science research class. To be > clear, they are already, for good or for ill, doing data analysis and > graphics for their projects using software. Mostly they are using > Excel and SPSS. My goal would be to introduce them to R as another > (and better) tool for what they are currently doing. > Although RExcel was already mentioned, one element conspicuously missing from this discussion was R GUIs. Some have suggested RStudio as a practical IDE to R, and I second that. But there are several other GUIs that may help your students to get a quick grasp of R and its coding conventions. Rcmdr and its plug-ins is the inevitable candidate for teaching basic-statistics. There is also Deducer with its plug-ins and data editor window, but in my opinion it is less robust and useful in teaching R coding than Rcmdr. I also like 'playwith', which allows editing and enhancing various R graphics. Its cousin, 'latticist', is an excellent GUI to lattice that, given a data frame, allows to easily generate a range of graphics. Beware, though, of mixing Rcmdr---tcltk based---and playwith/latticist---mainly GTK based---in the same R session: there is a nasty bug [1] that often crashes your R instance. Regards Liviu [1] https://bugs.r-project.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=14187 _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-teaching
