Hello Arin, If your future students do not know statistics, you might consider buffering their introduction to R with the help of a GUI package, such as Rcmdr (if functionality is missing, you could add it yourself via the plugin infrastructure). Another way to help students would be to direct them to easy to use and straight-forward resources, like this [1], this [2] or this [3]. On the "why not SPSS" point, I would imagine the answer is quality and price, and all the corollary arguments (say, you can use it at home or during the weekend, etc).
No more than my two cents. Liviu [1] http://oit.utk.edu/scc/RforSAS&SPSSusers.pdf [2] http://www.statmethods.net/index.html [3] http://zoonek2.free.fr/UNIX/48_R/all.html On 2/11/08, Arin Basu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Comment 1: > > "In my quick glance, I did not see that statistics would be taught, > but I did see that R would be taught. Of course, R is a statistics > programme. I worry that teaching R could overwhelm the class. Or > teaching R would be worthless, because the students do not understand > statistics. " (Prof LR) > > Comment 2: > > Finally, on a minor point, why is "R" the statistical software being > used? SPSS is probably more widely available in the workplace – > certainly in areas of social policy etc. " (Prof NB) ______________________________________________ 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.
