Hi Everyone In the Contributed Documentation part of the R Project website there are dozens of various documents explaining this and that on R. Furthermore there is also the document "Introduction to R". In my thesis I have been using R here and there, so I would classify myself as an intermediate user after about 3 years of using it, but I am in no sense a professional. I am now on a guest research trip to another University, and there a few people have asked me to "spread the word", hinting even at me giving a presentation on R and the blessings it brings. I feel mightily uncomfortable with that, but what the heck. I have been now looking for an "official Introduction to R" in Presentation Format, but lo, there isn't one. There are a few tutorials on the web, but none are really a classical introduction. I have no bad conscience about taking a premade presentation by someone else (and yes, in todays context of plagiarised, fully citing them etc.), knowing that it is actually well designed to present R and doesn't talk gibberish, The closest I found was by Tyler K. Perrachione from MIT, which I think I might use if push comes to shove, but I wanted to ask whether anyone of you knows of a "official version" by one of the Core Project members ? Christian ----- Christian Langkamp christian.langkamp-at-gmxpro.de -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Standard-introductory-presentation-tp4640199.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Standard introductory presentation
4 messages · clangkamp, michael.weylandt at gmail.com (R. Michael Weylandt, Kenn Konstabel
You could do much worse than Bill Venables' short course presentation given at UseR 2012. Keep up the good work! Michael
On Aug 13, 2012, at 3:13 PM, clangkamp <christian.langkamp at gmxpro.de> wrote:
Hi Everyone In the Contributed Documentation part of the R Project website there are dozens of various documents explaining this and that on R. Furthermore there is also the document "Introduction to R". In my thesis I have been using R here and there, so I would classify myself as an intermediate user after about 3 years of using it, but I am in no sense a professional. I am now on a guest research trip to another University, and there a few people have asked me to "spread the word", hinting even at me giving a presentation on R and the blessings it brings. I feel mightily uncomfortable with that, but what the heck. I have been now looking for an "official Introduction to R" in Presentation Format, but lo, there isn't one. There are a few tutorials on the web, but none are really a classical introduction. I have no bad conscience about taking a premade presentation by someone else (and yes, in todays context of plagiarised, fully citing them etc.), knowing that it is actually well designed to present R and doesn't talk gibberish, The closest I found was by Tyler K. Perrachione from MIT, which I think I might use if push comes to shove, but I wanted to ask whether anyone of you knows of a "official version" by one of the Core Project members ? Christian ----- Christian Langkamp christian.langkamp-at-gmxpro.de -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Standard-introductory-presentation-tp4640199.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
______________________________________________ R-help at 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.
Not really an answer but since you said something about "blessings" and "spreading the word": I have a small presentation introducing the time saving aspects of R comparing it to a programme called Statistica that I used to use but that I now use mainly to convert its native files to a rreadable format:) http://psych.ut.ee/~nek/ajutine/corr.pdf On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 12:28 AM, R. Michael Weylandt
<michael.weylandt at gmail.com> <michael.weylandt at gmail.com> wrote:
You could do much worse than Bill Venables' short course presentation given at UseR 2012. Keep up the good work! Michael On Aug 13, 2012, at 3:13 PM, clangkamp <christian.langkamp at gmxpro.de> wrote:
Hi Everyone In the Contributed Documentation part of the R Project website there are dozens of various documents explaining this and that on R. Furthermore there is also the document "Introduction to R". In my thesis I have been using R here and there, so I would classify myself as an intermediate user after about 3 years of using it, but I am in no sense a professional. I am now on a guest research trip to another University, and there a few people have asked me to "spread the word", hinting even at me giving a presentation on R and the blessings it brings. I feel mightily uncomfortable with that, but what the heck. I have been now looking for an "official Introduction to R" in Presentation Format, but lo, there isn't one. There are a few tutorials on the web, but none are really a classical introduction. I have no bad conscience about taking a premade presentation by someone else (and yes, in todays context of plagiarised, fully citing them etc.), knowing that it is actually well designed to present R and doesn't talk gibberish, The closest I found was by Tyler K. Perrachione from MIT, which I think I might use if push comes to shove, but I wanted to ask whether anyone of you knows of a "official version" by one of the Core Project members ? Christian ----- Christian Langkamp christian.langkamp-at-gmxpro.de -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Standard-introductory-presentation-tp4640199.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
______________________________________________ R-help at 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.
______________________________________________ R-help at 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.
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Hi Everyone Thanks for answering both in public and on private email - I got numerous responses, and just for the people who have similar questions: Econometrics introduction "I found this approach interesting to your purposes: http://eeecon.uibk.ac.at/~zeileis/papers/DAGStat-2007.pdf " http://www.burns-stat.com/pages/Present/brief_overview_of_R_annotated.pdf http://psych.ut.ee/~nek/ajutine/corr.pdf And most importantly of all http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/wiki/Main/UseR-2012 - the site of the UseR Conference, where there is a link to the presentations of Venables. For complete beginners I continue to recommend the Introduction given by http://web.mit.edu/tkp/www/R/R_Tutorial_Slides.pdf Thanks again to everyone. ----- Christian Langkamp christian.langkamp-at-gmxpro.de -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Standard-introductory-presentation-tp4640199p4640403.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.