R help - Aug 2012 - Standard introductory presentation

Hi Everyone

In the Contributed Documentation part of the R Project website there are
dozens of various documents explaining this and that on R. Furthermore there
is also the document "Introduction to R". In my thesis I have been
using R
here and there, so I would classify myself as an intermediate user after
about 3 years of using it, but I am in no sense a professional.

I am now on a guest research trip to another University, and there a few
people have asked me to "spread the word", hinting even at me giving a
presentation on R and the blessings it brings. I feel mightily uncomfortable
with that, but what the heck. I have been now looking for an "official
Introduction to R" in Presentation Format, but lo, there isn't one.
There
are a few tutorials on the web, but none are really a classical
introduction.

I have no bad conscience about taking a premade presentation by someone else
(and yes, in todays context of plagiarised, fully citing them etc.), knowing
that it is actually well designed to present R and doesn't talk gibberish, 

The closest I found was by Tyler K. Perrachione from MIT, which I think I
might use if push comes to shove, but I wanted to ask whether anyone of you
knows of a "official version" by one of the Core Project members ?

Christian



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You could do much worse than Bill Venables' short course presentation given
at UseR 2012.

Keep up the good work!

Michael

On Aug 13, 2012, at 3:13 PM, clangkamp <christian.langkamp at gmxpro.de>
wrote:
> Hi Everyone
> 
> In the Contributed Documentation part of the R Project website there are
> dozens of various documents explaining this and that on R. Furthermore
there
> is also the document "Introduction to R". In my thesis I have
been using R
> here and there, so I would classify myself as an intermediate user after
> about 3 years of using it, but I am in no sense a professional.
> 
> I am now on a guest research trip to another University, and there a few
> people have asked me to "spread the word", hinting even at me
giving a
> presentation on R and the blessings it brings. I feel mightily
uncomfortable
> with that, but what the heck. I have been now looking for an "official
> Introduction to R" in Presentation Format, but lo, there isn't
one. There
> are a few tutorials on the web, but none are really a classical
> introduction.
> 
> I have no bad conscience about taking a premade presentation by someone
else
> (and yes, in todays context of plagiarised, fully citing them etc.),
knowing
> that it is actually well designed to present R and doesn't talk
gibberish,
> 
> The closest I found was by Tyler K. Perrachione from MIT, which I think I
> might use if push comes to shove, but I wanted to ask whether anyone of you
> knows of a "official version" by one of the Core Project members
?
> 
> Christian
> 
> 
> 
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Hi Everyone
Thanks for answering both in public and on private email - I got numerous
responses, and just for the people who have similar questions:

Econometrics introduction
"I found this approach interesting to your purposes: 
http://eeecon.uibk.ac.at/~zeileis/papers/DAGStat-2007.pdf "

http://www.burns-stat.com/pages/Present/brief_overview_of_R_annotated.pdf

http://psych.ut.ee/~nek/ajutine/corr.pdf

And most importantly of all
http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/wiki/Main/UseR-2012 - the site of the UseR
Conference, where there is a link to the presentations of Venables.

For complete beginners I continue to recommend the Introduction given by
http://web.mit.edu/tkp/www/R/R_Tutorial_Slides.pdf

Thanks again to everyone.



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