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I'm planning to utilize R for my intermediate stats course in the spring. I'd be most interested in hearing summaries and/or receiving materials that folks have used to introduce students to R, and guided them through the...

# is there a bug in the calculation of the odds ratio in fisher.test? # Nicholas Horton, nhorton at smith.edu Fri Jan 22 08:29:07 EST 2010 x1 = c(rep(0, 244), rep(1, 209)) x2 = c(rep(0...

The package xgrid 0.1-11 is now available on CRAN.? The package provides functions to distribute and collate results from simulation studies and other computationally expensive tasks to Apple Xgrid clusters from within R. More specifically, the routines within...

Joel Schwartz wrote: Cc: r-sig-teaching at r-project.org Subject: Re: [R-sig-teaching] Reverse the scoring of some Columns of a Data Set Message-ID: <05A396B0-2AD4-4AD1-A27A-A9F9730BFC59 at joelschwartz.com> Content-Type: text/plain...

The package xgrid 0.1-11 is now available on CRAN.? The package provides functions to distribute and collate results from simulation studies and other computationally expensive tasks to Apple Xgrid clusters from within R. More specifically, the routines within...

Colleagues, For the last year, I've been working with Randy Pruim and Danny Kaplan on the "mosaic" package for R and RStudio to provide a more concise and expressive way for introductory students to undertake statistical computing in a...

here appears to be a bug in the foreign library. The following code used to work, but now generates an error when 'package="SAS"' is specified: ds <- read.csv("http://www.math.smith.edu/sasr/datasets/help.csv") # running foreign...

My summer students and I have created a series of files to help describe how to undertake analyses introduced as examples in the Second Edition of the Statistical Sleuth: A Course in Methods of Data Analysis (2002), the excellent text...

A group of students and faculty at Smith College have created a series of files to help describe how to undertake analyses using R that are introduced as examples in two excellent textbooks: the Second and Third editions of the...

We are excited to announce that the 2018 Electronic Conference on Teaching Statistics (eCOTS) will be held online May 21-25, 2018, and is currently accepting proposals for breakout sessions, virtual posters, and birds-of-a-feather discussions. This year...

Peter, I run "update.packages()" regularly and may well have gotten this as a result. Alas, I don't log the results very carefully. All the best, Nick On 1/3/09 6:46 PM, "Peter Dalgaard" <p.dalgaard at...

> Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 13:38:28 -0700 > From: Allen Cornelius <allencornelius at gmail.com> > To: "r-sig-teaching at r-project.org" <r-sig-teaching at r-project.org> > Subject: [R-sig-teaching] Data sets for teaching advanced...

I wanted to share some updates on my prior email about illustrated examples of how to fit the case studies from the Second Edition of the "Statistical Sleuth" within R. If you are using this book, or would like to...