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5 messages · Peter Dalgaard, Kurt Hornik, Mark Myatt

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All,

I have updated my practical introduction to using R to analyse
epidemiological data for the March 2001 Computer Software in
Epidemiology course at the Nordic School of Public Health to include a
short section on object orientation. You can get this from:

        http://www.myatt.demon.co.uk

As a ZIP file containing MS Word '95 (DOC) and Adobe Acrobat v4.xx (PDF)
version of the document as well as the sample data files used in the
exercises.

I place this material in the public domain. Feel free to make use of it
as you will.

Mark Myatt



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Mark Myatt <mark at myatt.demon.co.uk> writes:
Hey, this looks nice. I especially like the banquet data for logistic
regression. I suggest that we put it on CRAN, although probably
separate the .pdf and .doc files so they can be viewed directly.
Could you add a couple of words about the level of the intended
audience.

A bunch of minor corrections (non-exhaustive, just what caught my eye.
PDF page numbers)

p2:  (Exc.3) general*ized* linear models
p7:  ctest is automatically loaded nowadays
p33: Bill Venables misspelled in "S programming" entry
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Yes, that looks *VERY NICE*, and I think we should definitely put this
on CRAN.  [I also like the banquet data ... the conclusion is that the
lattice was bad?]

I have three remarks.

* Technically one should refer to R add-ons as *packages* (and not as
  *libraries*).

* I'd prefer only putting up the .pdf file.

* Re scripts and data, one option is to the same as for Jim's ``Data
  Analysis and Graphics Using R'' who makes these available via his home
  page, and CRAN has a link to this.  Alternatively, we could set up a
  place in CRAN which holds ``packages'' which are really data and
  scripts and perhaps some extra code to be used along with docs.

-k
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Peter Dalgaard BSA <p.dalgaard at pubhealth.ku.dk> writes:
Thanks. I will fix it up and post a message to the list when I have a
new version available.

Mark

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Kurt Hornik <Kurt.Hornik at ci.tuwien.ac.at> writes:
Thanks. I will fix it up as you suggest and post a message to the list
when a new version is available.

Mark


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