R-sig-teaching Digest, Vol 26, Issue 6

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Date: Saturday, 24 October, 2009, 11:00 AM
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Today's Topics:

???1. Re: introducing R (Eric Lamb)
???2. Re: introducing R (Gabor
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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:03:16 -0600
From: Eric Lamb <eric.lamb at usask.ca>
Subject: Re: [R-sig-teaching] introducing R
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I also have recieved a fair amount of pushback from
collegues who would 
prefer their favorite program to be taught to graduate
students.

When it comes to presuading people to embrace R I have
found that a 
discussion of the benefits of open source software is very
effective. My 
institution trains a large number of graduate students from
developing 
countries who will likely have limited access to research
funds when 
they return. Pointing out the benefits of training on an
open access 
platform to the future research careers of these students
has gotten 
many onside. The same arguement applies to students who
will be working 
for small companies that cannot afford/justify a SAS
license.

Cheers, Eric

-- 
Eric Lamb
Assistant Professor, Plant Ecology and Biostatistics
Dept. of Plant Sciences, University of Saskatchewan
http://homepage.usask.ca/egl388/index.html

4D68 Agriculture Building
306-966-1799
eric.lamb at usask.ca



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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 23:41:25 -0400
From: Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendieck at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [R-sig-teaching] introducing R
To: Iasonas Lamprianou <lamprianou at yahoo.com>
Cc: r-sig-teaching at r-project.org
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On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 3:03 AM, Iasonas Lamprianou
<lamprianou at yahoo.com>
wrote:

? What is more, I need material in Greek.

There is a Greek intro here:

http://stat-athens.aueb.gr/~grstats/notes/r_giagos.pdf



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