David Robinson has a nice blog post on the subject: http://varianceexplained.org/r/teach-tidyverse/ Hadley
On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 3:30 PM, Christopher W. Ryan <[email protected]> wrote: > I'll be teaching intro epidemiology in a new MPH program, starting this > fall. Weekly sessions, each 3 hours long. Expecting 12-20 students. I > plan to try to make it fairly interactive, with a "computer lab" as part > of almost every class session. Using R. I'll do an initial "needs > assessment" prior to or on first day of class; for now I assume none of > the students are at all familiar with R. My first thought was to limit > my efforts to base R, rather than try to use any installable packages. > Any opinions about that? I specifically wonder whether Hadley Wickham's > tidyverse way of doing things is become so commonplace (and rightly so!) > that I should introduce this. It certainly makes data wrangling much > easier, and that is a lot of what epidemiologists do, since we are so > often given existing data that were not recorded with future analyses in > mind. > > Thoughts on any of the above? Thanks. > > --Chris Ryan, MD, MS > Binghamton University, > SUNY Upstate Medical University, > and > Broome County Health Department, NY, US > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-teaching -- http://hadley.nz _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-teaching
