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presume folks won’t mind if this interaction continues via the list. Others
might make some useful comments.
I
hadn’t realized a menu-driven R was up and running. If that’s what the NYT
article was referring to, it would imply that menu-driven R is easier to use
than all the other menu-driven stats packages. Is R’s menu interface any
different from any other? Does the interface somehow capture R’s strange concepts/jargon
for specifying data and models (which I still haven’t attempted to understand,
I must admit)?
Will
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sportsci_rtutorial@yahoogroups.com [mailto:sportsci_rtutorial@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Ian Shrier
Sent: Friday, 9 January 2009 11:17
a.m.
To:
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Subject: Re: [sportsci_rtutorial]
R article at the new york times
Will
Within R, there is a
feature called R Commander. Once loaded, it is menu-driven. Further, as it
runs, it writes the code so you learn how to program as you go along.
Unfortunately, I only
learned about it after I went through the steepest part of the learning curve.
And although I probably should use it sometimes, I tend to rely on the help
documentation or my statistician friend who is an R grand master...very helpful
if you have one.
Ian Shrier MD, PhD, Dip Sport Med, FACSM
Associate Professor, Dep't of Fam Med, McGill University
Past-President, Canadian Academy of Sport Medicine
Check out: www.casm-acms.org
SKYPE name: ian.shrier
Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Community Studies
SMBD-Jewish General Hospital
3755 Cote Ste-Catherine Rd
Montreal, Qc H3T 1E2
Tel: 514-340-7563
Fax: 514-340-7564
On 8-Jan-09, at 4:05 PM,
Will Hopkins wrote:
“But R has also quickly found a following because statisticians,
engineers and scientists without computer programming skills find it easy to
use.”
This is an example of why I don’t read newspapers on or off line.
Will
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Behalf Of gerrobrein
Sent: Friday, 9 January 2009 1:29 a.m.
To: sportsci_rtutorial@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [sportsci_rtutorial] R article at the
new york times
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/technology/business-
computing/07program.html?_r=2
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