Hi all, I will be teaching a graduate-level course on R at CU Boulder next semester. I have a teaching idea that might also help improve the R wiki page... I wanted to know what you all thought of it and wanted to solicit some advice about doing it.
During the latter part of the course, students will choose a topic of interest (e.g., hierarchical linear modeling), and show how to achieve it in R. They would present their findings to the class, and would also be responsible for writing a concise but well-written "How To" manual on the topic. These would be ~ 5-10 pages and would include basic background of the statistical procedure and a commented example with code in R. The goal would be for these to read like Baron & Li's "Notes on the use of R for psychology experiments and questionnaires." Originally I was going to post these as PDFs on my own web-page and let them grow into a compendium of how-to manuals as I teach this course over the years. However, perhaps a better idea, and one that probably benefits more people, is to have my students post their short manuals (not as PDFs but rather typed in) on the R-wiki page. Does this seem like a good idea to folks? Another question has to do with how barren the current R wiki page is... is it still being actively developed or has the community given up on it? Finally, any thoughts on where on the R-wiki site we should post our "How To" manuals? The "tips and tricks" section seems to barely be more than snippets of conversations from this list-serve (often sans the context). My guess is that the "Guides" section is where these should go. Your input would be most appreciated. Best, Matt -- Matthew C Keller Asst. Professor of Psychology University of Colorado at Boulder www.matthewckeller.com ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
