Re: [R] Reasons to Use R in a Public Administrations and Ideas for a Short Training

2018-04-19 Thread Christopher W Ryan
A few years ago I gave two 5-hour workshops about R to a class of US high school students in a somewhat-accelerated science research class (so these were already science-motivated kids). They had been using mainly Excel, and some SPSS for which the school had a license. Overall they seemed to lik

Re: [R] Reasons to Use R in a Public Administrations and Ideas for a Short Training

2018-04-19 Thread Thierry Onkelinx
Dear Lorenzo, First of all I would focus on topics which immediately usable by your audience. E.g. making figures and tables based on preprocessed data files (txt, Excel, GoogleSheets, data base query, ...). And pick examples in which the definition of the figures and tables remains more or less s

Re: [R] Reasons to Use R in a Public Administrations and Ideas for a Short Training

2018-04-18 Thread David L Carlson
s to Use R in a Public Administrations and Ideas for a Short Training Dear All, Ages ago I posted to this mailing list asking for advice about to evangelize the use of R in an international public administration where the fact that R is free is not a decisive factor (actually its being "free

[R] Reasons to Use R in a Public Administrations and Ideas for a Short Training

2018-04-18 Thread Lorenzo Isella
Dear All, Ages ago I posted to this mailing list asking for advice about to evangelize the use of R in an international public administration where the fact that R is free is not a decisive factor (actually its being "freeware" may even be seen negatively). After a long time, I think it is worthwh