Everyone:

 

In the last few months I've noticed an increasing number of questions to
this list from students who are new to the use of R and who have limited (in
any) local support on R and specifically support for R syntax.

 

My text
(http://www.springer.com/statistics/social+sciences+%26+law/book/978-1-4614-
2133-7) from last year was specific to the use of R syntax but given recent
feedback I see that perhaps those of us who teach beginning students need to
give a bit more attention to R Commander and/or other GUIs, to help students
build on their confidence so that we can start them out with some
immediately successful outcomes.  Then, with experience we can move them
over to the use of R syntax, which is certainly far more robust.

 

For beginning students, newbies, and any others who may be interested, I've
opened for guest access an Elluminate-Blackboard video on the use of R
Commander.  The URL follows and a password is not required:

 

https://mako.nova.edu/webapps/bb-collaborate-bb_bb60/guest.recording.launch.
event?uid=476978d4-00c4-488e-98a3-495201e17f5f 

 

The full video is about 1 hour and 20 minutes.  You can make the active
screen (right side of the screen) larger by moving it around, minimizing the
status column (left side of the screen).

 

Best wishes.

 

Tom MacFarland

 

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Thomas W. MacFarland, Ed.D.

Senior Research Associate; Institutional Effectiveness and Associate
Professor

Nova Southeastern University

Voice 954-262-5395 tommac@nova.edu

 


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