I have been really trying to resist commenting on this thread. I plan to write documentation - with whoever wants to help - for the use of R in psychology. I have been resisting because it is like vaporware to announce an intention. But I gave in to temptation just to let readers of this list know that some people ARE thinking about this. Right now I'm swamped and can't do it. It is one of the things I want to do this summer. Jonathan Baron, Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania Home page: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~jbaron -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
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2 messages · Jonathan Baron, Maria Wolters
Two cents from a non-statistician: - I really like the idea of a repository for existing introductions and workbooks. I regularly check the home pages of contributors to this list, and on some, I have found very useful texts created for class use. - For the non-statistician, a R companion to the most common stats textbooks would be useful. This way, you don't have to rack your brains trying to write the umpteenth crystal-clear account of ANOVA. Instead, you would "merely" need to relate the description in the book to what you'd find in R. For example, I think that for German psychologists and sociologists migrating from SPSS to R, a companion to the infamous Bortz book would be most welcome, For corpus linguists and computational linguists, a similar companion would address selected papers from Computational Linguistics (the journal), as well as a widespread textbook. I can't offer to write these companions at the moment, because I'm busy writing up my Ph.D. thesis and honing my time planning skills in the process, but if enough people were interested, I'd give at least the linguistics companion a try. have a nice day, Maria Wolters -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._