Starting R

Description (PDF file)
Each of the sessions runs from 4:30 to 8:00 PM at Macalester College, in Olin/Rice room 258.
Dinner is provided.

Thursday 12 Feb. 2009

Basic Introduction to R

Thursday 26 Feb. 2009

Towards Professional Use: Simple Programming

Thursday 12 March 2009

Specialized Computations. We'll draw on the expressed interests of the participants.

Files and Datasets

Notes and other materials from the sessions:

1. First session:
   • Notes on R Basics printing format or slide format


2. Second session:
   • Review from last week and further basics printing format
   • Exercise: The Basic Skills Test Data
   • Answers to Exercises
   • Dinner
   • Notes on Classical Hypothesis Testing
   • Toward Professional Work Data Reorganization Examples


3. Third session
• Menagerie of Models. slides
• Bootstrapping slides and software
• Graphics slides
• Panel data slides and runners data set

Datasets for the first session:

Contact Us

Additional Links

• Instructors:
  • Danny Kaplan, Macalester College
  • Bob delMas, University of Minnesota
  • Andy Zieffler, University of Minnesota
• Introduction to Statistical Modeling (at Macalester)
• USCOTS satellite workshop on teaching statistical modeling, June 23-25, 2009
• Workshop on Becoming a Catalyst for Change in Statistics Education, June 25, 2009

Installing R.

Windows/PC: Link to installation file. Save the file R-2.8.1-win32.exe, or whatever is the latest version. Then double-click on the downloaded file to install R. You can accept all the default settings.

Macintosh: Installation page Download the file R-2.8.1.dmg, or whatever is the latest version. Double-click on the dmg file to install R. You can accept all the default settings.

Acknowledgments