I will also evaluate what did the students used before in the introductory statistics class and how proficient they have become in using it. If they only barely touched it, I will use my class as a chance to further refine their familiarity with the software they saw before. Tool is tool, I consider it's more important to use at least one tool, regardless of if it's trendy or free or user-friendly, really well rather than being able to juggle many softwares superficially.
SPSS, despite of its price, is still widely recognized. I wouldn't feel too bad teaching it. However, I will definitely shift the focus to syntax writing from GUI so that the students will be better prepared for other command based softwares. Ken ______________________________________________ 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.
