Re: [R] Teaching R: To quote, or not to quote?

2011-03-10 Thread Martin Maechler
> "IV" == Ingmar Visser > on Wed, 9 Mar 2011 09:57:09 +0100 writes: >> FWIW, the style for JSS now enforces (via Achimitization) >> the use of quotes as you show above. >> > An excellent candidate for the fortunes package! well, yes, in particular as {R code} > maint

Re: [R] Teaching R: To quote, or not to quote?

2011-03-09 Thread Uwe Ligges
On 09.03.2011 10:00, Liviu Andronic wrote: On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Ingmar Visser wrote: FWIW, the style for JSS now enforces (via Achimitization) the use of quotes as you show above. An excellent candidate for the fortunes package! We should probably address Achim for that. :)

Re: [R] Teaching R: To quote, or not to quote?

2011-03-09 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Ingmar Visser wrote: >> FWIW, the style for JSS now enforces (via Achimitization) the use of quotes >> as you show above. >> > > An excellent candidate for the fortunes package! > We should probably address Achim for that. :) Regards Liviu > best, Ingmar > >    

Re: [R] Teaching R: To quote, or not to quote?

2011-03-09 Thread Ingmar Visser
> FWIW, the style for JSS now enforces (via Achimitization) the use of quotes > as you show above. > An excellent candidate for the fortunes package! best, Ingmar [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https:

Re: [R] Teaching R: To quote, or not to quote?

2011-03-08 Thread Yihui Xie
Oh, JSS... I was Achimitized last week... although I have been seeing library() calls without double quotes almost everywhere. Regards, Yihui -- Yihui Xie Phone: 515-294-2465 Web: http://yihui.name Department of Statistics, Iowa State University 2215 Snedecor Hall, Ames, IA On Tue, Mar 8, 2011

Re: [R] Teaching R: To quote, or not to quote?

2011-03-08 Thread Michael Friendly
On 3/7/2011 9:52 AM, Muenchen, Robert A (Bob) wrote: Hi All, When I teach an intro workshop on R, I've been minimizing "quote confusion" by always using quotes around package names in function calls. For example: install.packages("Hmisc") update.packages("Hmisc") library("Hmisc") citation("Hmi

Re: [R] Teaching R: To quote, or not to quote?

2011-03-07 Thread S Ellison
>>> Duncan Murdoch 03/07/11 3:17 PM >>> >On 07/03/2011 9:52 AM, Muenchen, Robert A (Bob) wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> When I teach an intro workshop on R, I've been minimizing >>"quote confusion" by always using quotes around package names >> in function calls. >> ... I'm wondering if there's a downs

Re: [R] Teaching R: To quote, or not to quote?

2011-03-07 Thread Uwe Ligges
On 07.03.2011 16:17, Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 07/03/2011 9:52 AM, Muenchen, Robert A (Bob) wrote: Hi All, When I teach an intro workshop on R, I've been minimizing "quote confusion" by always using quotes around package names in function calls. For example: install.packages("Hmisc") update.p

Re: [R] Teaching R: To quote, or not to quote?

2011-03-07 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 07/03/2011 9:52 AM, Muenchen, Robert A (Bob) wrote: Hi All, When I teach an intro workshop on R, I've been minimizing "quote confusion" by always using quotes around package names in function calls. For example: install.packages("Hmisc") update.packages("Hmisc") library("Hmisc") citation("H

[R] Teaching R: To quote, or not to quote?

2011-03-07 Thread Muenchen, Robert A (Bob)
Hi All, When I teach an intro workshop on R, I've been minimizing "quote confusion" by always using quotes around package names in function calls. For example: install.packages("Hmisc") update.packages("Hmisc") library("Hmisc") citation("Hmisc") search() # displays package names in quotes detac

Re: [R] teaching R

2009-08-27 Thread Frederik Elwert
Am Donnerstag, den 27.08.2009, 15:40 -0500 schrieb Andreas Stefik: > Along this same note, are there any editors that have good code completion > (intellisense) capabilities for R? I'll be teaching R to undergraduates this > semester and I imagine having code completion would be helpful. JGR[1] is

Re: [R] teaching R

2009-08-27 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 8/27/09, Andreas Stefik wrote: > Along this same note, are there any editors that have good code completion > (intellisense) capabilities for R? I'll be teaching R to undergraduates this > semester and I imagine having code completion would be helpful. > Personally I find JGR a comfortable co

Re: [R] teaching R

2009-08-27 Thread Andreas Stefik
Along this same note, are there any editors that have good code completion (intellisense) capabilities for R? I'll be teaching R to undergraduates this semester and I imagine having code completion would be helpful. Andreas Stefik, Ph.D. Department of Computer Science Southern Illinois University

Re: [R] teaching R

2009-08-27 Thread Erich Neuwirth
And if your students are used to work with Excel (on Windows) and will have data in Excel, consider RExcel (more info at rcom.univie.ac.at) which among other things gives you the R Commander menu as an Excel menu. Disclaimer: I am the author of RExcel. David L Carlson wrote: > I'd suggest lookin

Re: [R] teaching R

2009-08-27 Thread David L Carlson
I'd suggest looking at Rcmdr by John Fox (http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox/Misc/Rcmdr/). I use it to introduce anthropology students to R for statistical analyses. It is a graphical user interface that lets students quickly begin using R to run statistical analyses. It includes a command window so y

Re: [R] teaching R

2009-08-26 Thread Robert W. Baer, Ph.D.
Hello all, I am going to be running a small statistics workshop using R sometime in November. I am restricted to R because of the specific libraries I will be using - a good thing in my book - however the attendees are unfamiliar with R. I plan on giving as little R information as possible - ju

Re: [R] teaching R

2009-08-26 Thread Liviu Andronic
Hello On 8/26/09, Michael Nestrud wrote: > Any advice / what works / what doesn't work is appreciated for those > that have tried this before me. > It could prove helpful to forward similar questions to r-sig-teaching. Also, there was a recent discussion on the topic [1]. Liviu [1] https://sta

Re: [R] teaching R

2009-08-26 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Michael Nestrud wrote: > Hello all, > > I am going to be running a small statistics workshop using R sometime > in November.  I am restricted to R because of the specific libraries I > will be using - a good thing in my book - however the attendees are > unfamiliar

[R] teaching R

2009-08-26 Thread Michael Nestrud
Hello all, I am going to be running a small statistics workshop using R sometime in November. I am restricted to R because of the specific libraries I will be using - a good thing in my book - however the attendees are unfamiliar with R. I plan on giving as little R information as possible - jus