Re: [R] demonstrating R in introductory class using point-and-click software

2014-01-17 Thread Christopher W. Ryan
I've never taught a complete course, but I recently conducted 2 "introduction to R" workshops, each about 5 hours long, for a class of about 15 high school science students. Very basic. We emphasized graphics. But by the end, we had gotten into conceptual stuff about the population vs the sample, s

Re: [R] demonstrating R in introductory class using point-and-click software

2014-01-15 Thread Dennis Murphy
Hi Ranjan: I think this is an important and well-posed question. AFAIR, sciviews provides a fairly sophisticated GUI for R, but I haven't looked at it in a while. The two packages I'd suggest you look at are John Fox's R Commander (package Rcmdr...and note all the plug-ins!) and Ian Fellows' Deduc

Re: [R] demonstrating R in introductory class using point-and-click software

2014-01-15 Thread Bert Gunter
Why did you not go to CRAN and follow links there, which would get you to: http://www.sciviews.org/_rgui/ -- Bert Bert Gunter Genentech Nonclinical Biostatistics (650) 467-7374 "Data is not information. Information is not knowledge. And knowledge is certainly not wisdom." H. Gilbert Welch O

[R] demonstrating R in introductory class using point-and-click software

2014-01-15 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Dear friends, OK, I did not think that it would ever come down to this, but I am here with a question on what would be the best point-and-click approach to using R in the classroom in a way that the students can also follow and exhibit (on their own). So let me explain: I am teaching an introduc