Thank you Randall very much for your help. I didn't know that this list was completely unsuitable for this type of a question. I assumed this list would be with reference to both teaching as well for students who need and use R in their university courses. In any case, thanks for informing me that this is a wrong list and I will post my other questions to some more relevant list.
On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 4:12 PM, Bob <[email protected]> wrote: > > I am one of the people who lobbied for the creation of this list long > ago. I am not sure R is a great choice for a first course in > statistics, but I thought that if someone chose to use it, then they > and their students might need all the help they could get to make it > easier for the class. But right from the beginning, the bulk of the > posts to the list were like this latest one quoted below -- questions > about how to do something with R that has no obvious connection to > pedagogy or to using R in a first course. This means that those of us > interested in the actual topic of this list get lots of off-topic > messages, while those who post the messages reach only a small > audience that may not be interested in their question. Some off topic > posts are answered, some ingnored, and some posters get redirected > (even scolded) toward a more appropriate list. I see only losers in > this process. > > So my question is whether this list really serves any useful purpose, > or does it just siphon off queries that should have gone elsewhere? > Those who post those queries would be likely to get an answer, and get > it sooner, if they posted to an appropriate list in the first place. > My own answer is that this list is not useful at the present time. > Possibly in the future more people will be interested in R for an > introductory course and then they might be glad if this list were > still alive, but so far... > > So I am wondering what others on the list think. > > Here's the official description of this list. > > Special Interest Group (SIG) on teaching statistics with R. The > primary purpose of the group is to provide a forum where instructors > using R in their statistics courses can share ideas, teaching > materials, and experiences. One particular focus of the SIG is to > provide helpful support to instructors new to R who are teaching > introductory statistics courses populated with students with little > experience in statistics, statistical software, and command line > interfaces. > > Here is where most posts to this list really should have gone. > > R-help > > The ?main? R mailing list, for discussion about problems and > solutions using R, announcements (not covered by ?R-announce? or > ?R-packages?, see above), about the availability of new > functionality for R and documentation of R, comparison and > compatibility with S-plus, and for the posting of nice examples > and benchmarks. > > Forwarded message: > > > > Hi Everyone, > > > > I am a little new to R and the first problem I am facing is the dilemma > > whether R is suitable for files of size 2 GB's and slightly more then 2 > > Million rows. When I try importing the data using read.table, it seems to > > take forever and I have to cancel the command. Are there any special > > techniques or methods which i can use or some tricks of the game that I > > should keep in mind in order to be able to do data analysis on such large > > files using R? > > > -------> First-time AP Stats. teacher? Help is on the way! See > http://courses.ncssm.edu/math/Stat_Inst/Stats2007/Bob%20Hayden/Relief.html > _ > | | Robert W. Hayden > | | 142 Main Street > / | Apartment 104 > | | Jaffrey, New Hampshire 03452 USA > | | email: bob@ the site below > / | website: http://statland.org > | x / phone: (603) 532-7224 (home) > '''''' > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-teaching > -- Regards Gaurav Singh [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-teaching
