[R-sig-teaching] Online resources for teaching intro stats using R

[Robert W. Hayden]

Forwarded message: From: "Douglas Bates" <bates at stat.wisc.edu>
> 
> I also see R as a way of removing some of the material in our courses
> that is no longer necessary.

I have worked with textbook publishers and I think the catch here is
that they want to include as large a market as possible.  So if you
write a text integrating R, it won't sell to those using SPSS.  The
net effect is that texts are stuck at the NO-technology level, afraid
to adopt anything.  I like to teach statistics by bringing a data set
to class and providing an analysis there.  The useful stuff that
appears in textbooks is then footnotes along the way.  I'd like to
write a textbook that works this way, but it would have to use some
specific software, and publishers don't want that.  I have thought of
creating something and just putting it on the WWW, in the manner of
Jim Hefferon's linear algebra textbook:

    http://joshua.smcvt.edu/linearalgebra/

just down the road from me.


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