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  • Members: 100
  • Category: Sports
  • Founded: May 10, 2007
  • Language: English
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Historically, programming has not been considered a critical skill for sports scientists. However recently, with the emergence of advanced measurement techniques, which provide access to vast amounts of data, programming skills are increasingly in strong demand in sports science research. This newsgroup has therefore two main goals in mind.

First, the tutorial serves as a general introduction to the open source R stats package. The R software package is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics with strong support within the statistical community. Many cutting edge statistical methods are available through R, unmatched by any commercially available statistical software package. Further, since R provides sophisticated graphical routines the package can be regarded as an all-purpose tool for data treatment in general. Thus, R provides a coherent framework for data exploration and analysis, statistical analysis, and eventual data presentation, unlike the patchwork of MS Excel, SPSS, and other software packages typically in use.

Second, since R is based on the S programming language, as a side effect the fundamentals of computer programming are introduced. Hence, the R software package serves as a “first” programming language and several complications, which are experienced with “pure” programming languages, can be avoided. The tutorial does not assume any prior experiences with any programming language. As there are many similarities between R and Matlab, this tutorial (with slight changes) may also be used with Matlab.

At the moment, the tutorials are set up, so that each session lasts only up to 10 minutes. Group member can download the tutorial file and go through the session straight away. Hence, accumulation of material for “later” can be avoided.
For any questions, requests or comments, please either post a message or send an email to:
gerrobrein@yahoo.com.au

Cheers
Rob

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Re: Yet another R interface
That's really an ambitious project. I'm giving it a try and as soon as possible will put a brief review here on the list. See you Joao P Dubas
Posted - Wed Apr 15, 2009 5:34 pm
Joao Dubas
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Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the sportsci_rtutorial group. File :
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Re: Animation package in R
Sorry, third try http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/sportsci_rtutorial/files/Misc/R.eye.candy.ppt
Posted - Sun Apr 5, 2009 6:10 pm
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Re: Animation package in R
Rob there wasn't any link Ian Shrier MD, PhD, Dip Sport Med, FACSM Associate Professor, Dep't of Fam Med, McGill University Past-President, Canadian Academy of
Posted - Sun Apr 5, 2009 12:05 pm
Ian Shrier
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Animation package in R
Hi everybody, If you need some fancy animations for your next presentation/seminar check out the animation package in R. The package comes with some nice
Posted - Sun Apr 5, 2009 11:48 am
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