Everyone:
If you work in Higher Education, in either an office of Institutional Research or an office Institutional Effectiveness, I'm keen to hear from you on how you use R, individually or with colleagues. Why do you use R? Is the cost savings an issue? Do you also maintain a license to more established packages (e.g., SPSS, SAS, or Minitab)? Are you encouraged (allowed?) to use R instead of other software? How do you use R? Do you use R for specific analyses only, or do you also use R for general work in your office? Do your colleagues use R? Can you share syntax and ideas with them, or are they hesitant to move away from the more established packages? If there is sufficient response to how R is used in Institutional Research - Institutional Effectiveness I'll be sure to post a summary to the list. For context, pasted below are the URLs to a few Tegrity-based videos on how I've tried to encourage colleagues in our area to consider R. If you are new to the use of Tegrity, click the maximize button about one-quarter down on the right side of the screen to make the screen show full size. Toggle back to the smaller default screen size by keying the Escape key. Are You Ready for R? Open Source Software for Institutional Research http://tegr.it/y/aq8 Import a .csv Spreadsheet-Type Data File into R http://tegr.it/y/azi Organize the Data http://tegr.it/y/azg Conduct a Visual Data Check http://tegr.it/y/aze Supplemental R Packages http://tegr.it/y/azc Summary Descriptive Statistics http://tegr.it/y/aza Breakout Descriptive Statistics http://tegr.it/y/az8 Use R for Student's t-Test http://tegr.it/y/az4 Thank you for all who respond to the request for information. Tom ----- Thomas W. MacFarland, Ed.D. Senior Research Associate; Institutional Effectiveness and Associate Professor Nova Southeastern University Voice 954-262-5395 Fax 954-262-3970 tom...@nsu.nova.edu [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.
