[R-sig-teaching] data preprocessing resources

[Tyler Smith]

  Hi,

I'll be teaching a grad course in multivariate stats for ecologists 
(ordination et al.) for the first time this coming spring. One thing 
I've discovered in my interactions with grad students is that they each 
develop their own rather idiosyncratic approaches to data processing. 
I've seen some really odd and weirdly illogical use of spreadsheets 
since I started teaching last year.

Do any of you know of good online or in-print resources to either use in 
my teaching or direct students to? I've come across bits and pieces 
scattered in various online lecture slides and notes, but nothing really 
focused on this particular issue.

I know this is not really an R issue per se, but it's much easier to get 
data into R if it is originally entered into a spreadsheet in a sensible 
fashion.

Thanks for any suggestions!

Tyler