Hi Arin, Others have commented wisely an your first issue. As for your 2nd issue, I had my own concerns about using R in undergraduate teaching because I had always used a point-and-click program for that level. I should not have worried. The current generation has been typing on their keyboards and their phones for a long time; they are very skilled. They LIKE a command-line interface, so long as someone gives them an initial cheat sheet to get them going. They like the price, they like having it on their own computers, and they like that they can use it other courses. Some students are sometimes upset that no one has ever told them about R before. Two hours after the first lab in which I had students download R to their laptops, I received an email from a student telling me about how she had used R to do her physics homework. I like the (almost) platform-independence of R. I've resisted using Rcmdr and JGR because I want students to be able to use base R well. If they want to customize later, then fine. But what I teach them will apply wherever they next encounter R, whereas if were to use a lot of packages--especially one I would be tempted to create to match my teaching more closely--then they wouldn't be sure what to expect later.
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