[R-sig-teaching] data preprocessing resources

[Tyler Smith]

  On 10/01/2010 05:05 PM, Greg Snow wrote:
> I would start here:
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> http://www.burns-stat.com/pages/Tutor/spreadsheet_addiction.html
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> Then point the students to a basic tutorial about databases (or at least MSaccess).
>
> Or you can have them enter the data directly into R without using outside products.  Some of the GUI front ends for R have spreadsheet like interfaces, or you can create an empty data frame with the correct column types, then use edit/fix to enter the data in a way that feels familiar to spreadsheet users, but prevents some of the major problems that come from abuse of spreadsheets.
>
Thanks! I'd forgotten about that essay. That's a nice opener. I have 
never really considered R as a tool for data entry, but I'll have to 
take another look at the GUIs.

Cheers,

Tyler