R help - Aug 2004 - Re: Thanks Frank, setting graph parameters, and why socialscientists don't use R

Medicine in the UK uses (or used, it's changing) the 'apprenticeship
model' which in my case meant my own datasets (providing the motivation) the
programme and its supporting written documentation (SPSS manuals double as quite
good statistical textbooks, so I could link the concepts to the software) and
various supervisors and referees (providing ego-bruising feedback).  I found the
courses I attended distinctly unmemorable, no matter how ego-syntonic they were,
largely because I didn't care about the sample datasets supplied. Other
students I have known and taught/supervised report similar experiences.