This email isn't asking for assistance, but I thought R-help readers would find it interesting. This week we offered a half-day introduction to R for researchers at Augsburg University. The response was astonishing. Although Augsburg has no medical faculty and no engineers, there was far too much demand, with interest from every faculty (barring theology, "for one small village of indomitable Gauls still holds out against the R invaders" --- perhaps that should be obdurate rather than indomitable) and we had participants from computer science, geography, physics, law, linguistics, education, sociology, marketing, psychology, finance, ...
The course itself went very well. We encouraged people to bring their laptops and work in groups. Using JGR as the interface to R helped a lot, as it was easier for people to load their own data and use the help. Of course, JGR is compulsory in Augsburg. Giving everyone a Butterbreze (a local delicacy) halfway through may have contributed to the good humour of the course as well! Statistics doesn't always have a positive image. I can recommend running an R course as one way of making a good impression. Antony Unwin Professor of Computer-Oriented Statistics and Data Analysis, Mathematics Institute, University of Augsburg, 86135 Augsburg, Germany Tel: + 49 821 5982218 http://stats.math.uni-augsburg.de/ [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.
