Re: [R] Teaching R in 40 minutes. What should be included?

2005-02-26 Thread Frank E Harrell Jr
Spencer Graves wrote: I agree with Thomas and Georg: A 40 minute intro should be mostly Marketing and very little how to. I think you'll have a more effective sales job if you target, say, 4 examples averaging 5 slides each plus some general overview, max 25-30 slides. If I had

[R] Teaching R in 40 minutes. What should be included?

2005-02-25 Thread Dr Carbon
If _you_ were asked to give a 40 minute dog and pony show about R for a group of scientists ranging from physicists to geographers what would you put in? These people want to know what R can do. I'm thinking about something like: A. Overview B. data structures C. arithmetic and manipulation D.