[R] Making a case for using R in Academia

[Jonathan Baron]

Our first-year graduate statistics course (in psychology) is
taught by Prof. Paul Rosenbaum, in the statistics department.
Last year (according to my students), he discouraged students
from using R for their homework.  He told them it was too hard.
Now he is again teaching the course, recommending R, and making
the homework data available in an R-friendly format (i.e., not
xls or JMP format).  The student culture is changing too.  They
help each other.

Jon
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Jonathan Baron, Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania
Home page: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~baron
Editor: Judgment and Decision Making (http://journal.sjdm.org)