Hi Marsh, I taught an intro to R course and have posted all the materials up on the web: http://psych-swiki.colorado.edu:8080/LearnR.
Most learning in R comes from doing, not reading, and that's how I structured my course. All the lectures/HWs can be done individually, and the keys are there to check how at least I solved the problems. A good intro R book would definitely be of help as well. Best of luck, Matt On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 11:16 AM, G. Jay Kerns <gjke...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Marsh, > > On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Marsh Feldman <marshfeld...@cox.net> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have a bright, diligent second-year graduate student who wants to learn >> statistics and R and will, in effect, be taking a tutorial from me on these >> subjects. (If you've seen some of my questions on this list, please don't >> laugh.) As an undergrad he majored in philosophy, so this will be his first >> foray into computer programming and statistics. >> >> I'm thinking of having him use "Introductory Statistics with R" by Peter >> Dalgaard, but I'm unable to tell if the book requires calculus. I don't >> think this student knows calculus, so this would be a deal breaker. Can >> someone tell me if my student can get through this book starting out with >> just knowledge of algebra? > > Short answer: Yes. The long answer is also Yes. > > (Not really, it depends on what you mean by 'get through'.) > >> >> Also, do you have other suggestions for texts, manuals, web sites, etc. that >> would introduce statistics and R simultaneously? > > Have you seen this? > > http://rwiki.sciviews.org/doku.php?id=books:intrstat > > Good luck, > Jay > > > *************************************************** > G. Jay Kerns, Ph.D. > Associate Professor > Department of Mathematics & Statistics > Youngstown State University > Youngstown, OH 44555-0002 USA > Office: 1035 Cushwa Hall > Phone: (330) 941-3310 Office (voice mail) > -3302 Department > -3170 FAX > VoIP: gjke...@ekiga.net > E-mail: gke...@ysu.edu > http://people.ysu.edu/~gkerns/ > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- Matthew C Keller Asst. Professor of Psychology University of Colorado at Boulder www.matthewckeller.com ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.