[R-sig-teaching] data preprocessing resources

[Ista Zahn]

You might find Paul Murrell's text helpful:
http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~paul/ItDT/

-Ista

On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 4:08 PM, Tyler Smith <tyler.smith at eku.edu> wrote:
>  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
>
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Ista Zahn
Graduate student
University of Rochester
Department of Clinical and Social Psychology
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