[R-sig-teaching] R-sig-teaching Digest, Vol 26, Issue 6

[Iasonas Lamprianou]

thanks to all for your comments

jason

Dr. Iasonas Lamprianou


Assistant Professor (Educational Research and Evaluation)
Department of Education Sciences
European University-Cyprus
P.O. Box 22006
1516 Nicosia
Cyprus 
Tel.: +357-22-713178
Fax: +357-22-590539


Honorary Research Fellow
Department of Education
The University of Manchester
Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK
Tel. 0044  161 275 3485
iasonas.lamprianou at manchester.ac.uk


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> Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:03:16 -0600
> From: Eric Lamb <eric.lamb at usask.ca>
> Subject: Re: [R-sig-teaching] introducing R
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> I also have recieved a fair amount of pushback from
> collegues who would 
> prefer their favorite program to be taught to graduate
> students.
> 
> When it comes to presuading people to embrace R I have
> found that a 
> discussion of the benefits of open source software is very
> effective. My 
> institution trains a large number of graduate students from
> developing 
> countries who will likely have limited access to research
> funds when 
> they return. Pointing out the benefits of training on an
> open access 
> platform to the future research careers of these students
> has gotten 
> many onside. The same arguement applies to students who
> will be working 
> for small companies that cannot afford/justify a SAS
> license.
> 
> Cheers, Eric
> 
> -- 
> Eric Lamb
> Assistant Professor, Plant Ecology and Biostatistics
> Dept. of Plant Sciences, University of Saskatchewan
> http://homepage.usask.ca/egl388/index.html
> 
> 4D68 Agriculture Building
> 306-966-1799
> eric.lamb at usask.ca
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> Message: 2
> Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 23:41:25 -0400
> From: Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendieck at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [R-sig-teaching] introducing R
> To: Iasonas Lamprianou <lamprianou at yahoo.com>
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> On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 3:03 AM, Iasonas Lamprianou
> <lamprianou at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> >  What is more, I need material in Greek.
> 
> There is a Greek intro here:
> 
> http://stat-athens.aueb.gr/~grstats/notes/r_giagos.pdf
> 
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