[R-sig-teaching] R for introductory epidemiology for MPH students--base or with a package or two?

[Hadley Wickham]

David Robinson has a nice blog post on the subject:
http://varianceexplained.org/r/teach-tidyverse/
Hadley

On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 3:30 PM, Christopher W. Ryan
<cryan using binghamton.edu> wrote:
> I'll be teaching intro epidemiology in a new MPH program, starting this
> fall. Weekly sessions, each 3 hours long. Expecting 12-20 students. I
> plan to try to make it fairly interactive, with a "computer lab" as part
> of almost every class session. Using R. I'll do an initial "needs
> assessment" prior to or on first day of class; for now I assume none of
> the students are at all familiar with R. My first thought was to limit
> my efforts to base R, rather than try to use any installable packages.
> Any opinions about that? I specifically wonder whether Hadley Wickham's
> tidyverse way of doing things is become so commonplace (and rightly so!)
> that I should introduce this. It certainly makes data wrangling much
> easier, and that is a lot of what epidemiologists do, since we are so
> often given existing data that were not recorded with future analyses in
> mind.
>
> Thoughts on any of the above?  Thanks.
>
> --Chris Ryan, MD, MS
> Binghamton University,
> SUNY Upstate Medical University,
> and
> Broome County Health Department, NY, US
>
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