[R] newbie list

[John Verzani]

I've been working on some notes for using R in an introductory
statistics course and was planning on contributing them to CRAN once
I've used them in a course this semester. However, if anyone wants to
see what I have right now, I would be glad to share them. The
url for the notes is:

http://www.math.csi.cuny.edu/Statistics/R/simpleR

Links to a PDF version and some datasets are available from here as
well. Any  feedback is, of course, most welcome.

--John

"Philippe Grosjean" <phgrosje at ulb.ac.be> writes:

> Dr. Duncan Mackay wrote:
> 
> >I think that in many cases, all a newbie (like myself) needs is some more
> >examples of the use of various functions to make their workings clear. Of
> >course, I wouldn't like to see the size of the documentation swell to
> >unmanageable proportions, but perhaps the docs could contain links to a
> >larger Web database or compendium of examples of the use of functions.
> There
> >was such a site called StatsRus but I haven't been able to access it
> >recently. Duncan
> 
> I agree. My idea is that writing R complements for statistics textbooks
> everybody use should be the best approach for decreasing learning curve of
> newbies. Personnally, I learned bases of R and R programming without asking
> a single question to experts thanks to the well-known books MASS and its R
> complement and with S programming. Of course, R complement for MASS was not
> so difficult to write because MASS deals with Splus that is very close to R.
> Nevertheless, I am shure R complements showing how to implement in R
> analyses presented in some major statistical textbooks would be the best way
> to teach newbies that already use these books. The key question is: who will
> write these R complements... are there any volunteer over there?
> 
> All the best,
> 
> Philippe Grosjean
> 
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