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Making teaching material, html, pdf or powerpoint

5 messages · Manuel Spínola, Cajias Marcelo, BRET R LARGET +1 more

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Manuel Spínola
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I am planning to make teaching material for data analysis in R.  I am
trying to decide which output will be better. Html, pdf or powepoint.

I found that flexdashboard could have the potential to make the material in
html output which could include interactive graphs and tables.

Any insight on this?

Best,
Cajias Marcelo
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Dear Manuel,

I teach 3 courses at the university and recommend strongly Rmarkdown into pdf/html. This is the most dynamic and modern way to teach, in my opinion. The students love.  

The only disadvantage is that you can create in ppt graphs or "forms" quicker than in markdown. 

Best

Marcelo 

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I am planning to make teaching material for data analysis in R.  I am trying to decide which output will be better. Html, pdf or powepoint.

I found that flexdashboard could have the potential to make the material in html output which could include interactive graphs and tables.

Any insight on this?

Best,

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BRET R LARGET
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I usually make HTML and post the notes and use the notes for lecture presentation. I scroll through the HTML rather than show static slides. HTML is better now than it used to be to show mathematical notation well. I used to use PDF. It is easier for students to knit a document into HTML than into PDF (because the latter requires installing LaTeX), so this is what I ask them to do.

-Bret
Robin A Donatello
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I concur with what others have said, use a RMarkdown file and create both HTML to present in class/on the web and a PDF for those that want to print a hard copy.
You can also look into the bookdown package 

Here are some of my examples of lecture notes using bookdown https://norcalbiostat.github.io/AppliedStatistics_notes/  and individual assignments that are available as HTML and pdf. https://norcalbiostat.github.io/MATH130/notes/07_factors.html  

-Robin

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Subject: [R-sig-teaching] Making teaching material, html, pdf or powerpoint

I am planning to make teaching material for data analysis in R.  I am trying to decide which output will be better. Html, pdf or powepoint.

I found that flexdashboard could have the potential to make the material in html output which could include interactive graphs and tables.

Any insight on this?

Best,

--
*Manuel Sp?nola, Ph.D.*
Instituto Internacional en Conservaci?n y Manejo de Vida Silvestre Universidad Nacional Apartado 1350-3000 Heredia COSTA RICA mspinola at una.cr <mspinola at una.ac.cr> mspinola10 at gmail.com
Tel?fono: (506) 8706 - 4662
Personal website: Lobito de r?o <https://sites.google.com/site/lobitoderio/>
Institutional website: ICOMVIS <http://www.icomvis.una.ac.cr/>


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Manuel Spínola
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Thank you very much to all for the answers.

Manuel

El mar., 17 dic. 2019 a las 12:14, Robin A Donatello (<
rdonatello at csuchico.edu>) escribi?: