I've written a short article on my experiences with teaching R to computational biology graduate students: http://www.ploscompbiol.org/doi/pcbi.1000482 My lecture notes are available as supplementary material, along with the beamer/latex sources (from my web page: http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/sje30/downloads.html) Stephen
Stephen Eglen, DAMTP, Centre for Mathematical Sciences Wilberforce Road, Cambridge CB3 0WA, U.K. Tel +44 (0)1223 765 761 S.J.Eglen at damtp.cam.ac.uk Fax +44 (0)1223 760 419 http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/eglen