[R] help for lay person assisting R user with disability

2015-06-18 Thread Courtney Bryant
Good Morning, I am currently working with a disabled R user who is a student here at CMU. The student has both sight and mobility issues. The student has asked for an assistant who is well versed in R to enter data for her, which we are having a hard time finding. I would like information

Re: [R] help for lay person assisting R user with disability

2015-06-18 Thread David L Carlson
-4352 -Original Message- From: R-help [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of PIKAL Petr Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2015 10:04 AM To: Courtney Bryant; r-help@R-project.org Subject: Re: [R] help for lay person assisting R user with disability Hi I believe that others come with more

Re: [R] help for lay person assisting R user with disability

2015-06-18 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 10:32 AM, Courtney Bryant cbry...@andrew.cmu.edu wrote: Good Morning, I am currently working with a disabled R user who is a student here at CMU. The student has both sight and mobility issues. The student has asked for an assistant who is well versed in R to enter

Re: [R] help for lay person assisting R user with disability

2015-06-18 Thread PIKAL Petr
Of Courtney Bryant Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2015 4:33 PM To: r-help@R-project.org Subject: [R] help for lay person assisting R user with disability Good Morning, I am currently working with a disabled R user who is a student here at CMU. The student has both sight and mobility issues. The student

Re: [R] help for lay person assisting R user with disability

2015-06-18 Thread Liz Hare
Hi Courtney and John, The RStudio environment mentioned below will not work with speech output (I tried with Window-Eyes awhile ago). Some of my clients use it but I have no experience with it. Since the student is partially sighted, they might be able to customize the environment with big

Re: [R] help for lay person assisting R user with disability

2015-06-18 Thread John McKown
On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 9:32 AM, Courtney Bryant cbry...@andrew.cmu.edu wrote: Good Morning, I am currently working with a disabled R user who is a student here at CMU. The student has both sight and mobility issues. The student has asked for an assistant who is well versed in R to enter

Re: [R] help for lay person assisting R user with disability

2015-06-18 Thread Bert Gunter
Given that neither you nor the student are (skilled?) R users, I think you would do better contacting someone locally for help -- there will be many in the statistics and social sciences departments (among others). There are several R packages that interface with Excel (e.g. RExcel), but it may

Re: [R] help for lay person assisting R user with disability

2015-06-18 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 18/06/2015 11:32 AM, Courtney Bryant wrote: Good Morning, I am currently working with a disabled R user who is a student here at CMU. The student has both sight and mobility issues. The student has asked for an assistant who is well versed in R to enter data for her, which we are having

Re: [R] help for lay person assisting R user with disability

2015-06-18 Thread Clint Bowman
Almost 20 years ago my son was in the DO-IT program at the University of Washington http://www.washington.edu/doit/. They have been very proactive in reaching out to other institutions. They have been solving problems such as yours and I suspect can suggest several workable solutions.

Re: [R] help for lay person assisting R user with disability

2015-06-18 Thread Paul Murrell
Hi Jonathon Godfrey has published some information and guidelines on the accessibility of R (and other stat software), e.g., ... http://r-resources.massey.ac.nz/StatSoftware/ http://journal.r-project.org/archive/2013-1/godfrey.pdf Paul On 06/19/15 02:32, Courtney Bryant wrote: Good

Re: [R] help for lay person assisting R user with disability

2015-06-18 Thread Courtney Bryant
, June 18, 2015 12:42 PM To: John McKown Cc: Courtney Bryant; r-help@R-project.org Subject: Re: [R] help for lay person assisting R user with disability Hi Courtney and John, The RStudio environment mentioned below will not work with speech output (I tried with Window-Eyes awhile ago). Some of my