[R] introducing R to high school students

[Rolf Turner]

On 22/04/12 15:29, Indrajit Sengupta wrote:

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> 1. At school we seldom deal with lot of data - the focus is more on concepts. Excel is an excellent tool
     That is at best debatable, and IMHO just plain incorrect.  I firmly 
believe
     that Excel is a ***TERRIBLE*** tool.
> and no matter how much we love or hate it - we will be using Excel a lot in our lives.

     This is not (unfortunately IMHO) debatable.  It is all too sadly 
true.  For most
     people at least.  (Not for my very good self.  I can get away with 
eschewing
     Excel.  Most people are not lucky enough to have that option.)

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     I think much of the remainder of the post was highly disputable as 
well,
     but I will desist at this point.

         cheers,

             Rolf Turner