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

[Albyn Jones]

"just putting on the WWW":  go Open Source!  The Grinstead and Snell
probability text is an example.  

Doug's post is pretty meaty, I plan to read it over carefully and respond
Sometime Real Soon, but don't have time at the moment.  Thanks for
starting the conversation!

albyn


On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 07:46:49PM -0400, Robert W. Hayden wrote:
> 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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