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<DIV><FONT face=MingLiu size=2>Hi there,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=細明體 size=2>I have just written a short introduction to R that I
am intended to use in a tutorial in my programming club.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=細明體 size=2>I wrote it as an undergraduate student.
Therefore I have put considerations on what kind of stuff will be of interests
to most of the students. Many of my friends I talked to didn't like R
much, however after I showed them what it can do most of them were impressed and
have since fall in love with it as myself. The main reason is that in the
courses that use R, they didn't put in a lot of concentration on the reasons of
doing it, but rather the mechenics (how to use it). As a result, as usual
with many new technical programmes, students hated it until they realise WHY
they should learn it and WHAT it is capable of.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=細明體 size=2>As a result, when I wrote the Introductory slides, I
wrote it in a way that how I, as a student, would like to learn it at the
beginning.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=細明體 size=2>I wrote it using Microsoft PowerPoint 2000.
Unfortunately I do realise that most of the R users use UNIX based operating
systems (yes I have FreeBSD and Windows ME both running on my PC, I admit that
using R on FreeBSD is much more stable...). As a result I have produced 2
versions of pdf files from the PowerPoint file. All of them can be found
from <A
href="http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~kwan022/pub/R/Introduction/">http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~kwan022/pub/R/Introduction/</A>.
R_Intro.ppt file is obviously the PowerPoint file. R_Intro_1up_Colour.pdf
is for those of you who think the slides are worth of putting in front of
students, can do so on OHP. R_Intro_6up_BW.pdf is for black/white handouts
printing.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=細明體 size=2>For those who have Windows but do not have PowerPoint
in the Office suite, there is a PowerPoint_Viewer.exe that can be downloaded and
used to view the slides on screen.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=細明體 size=2>One thing to note, since I have written it with the
intention of showing in my "programming" club, it makes sense to put in a few
technical slides on memory management. I personally do not think it is
easy to be learnt by general statistics major student who do not have any
programming background.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=細明體 size=2>I will be updating the slides in the future.
However in the mean time I will be greatly appreciate if those who decide to
download my slides can give me some feedbacks, to my private mail address <A
href="mailto:Ko-Kang@xtra.co.nz">Ko-Kang@xtra.co.nz</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=細明體 size=2>Cheers,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=細明體 size=2>Ko-Kang Wang</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=MingLiu
size=2>-------------------------------------------------<BR>Ko-Kang Kevin
Wang<BR>Undergraduate Student (Final Year)<BR>Statistics Department<BR>Science
Faculty<BR>University of Auckland<BR>New Zealand</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>