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Courtney Bryant

2015-Jun-18 14:32 UTC

[R] help for lay person assisting R user with disability

Good Morning,
I am currently working with a disabled R user who is a student here at CMU.  The
student has both sight and mobility issues.  The student has asked for an
assistant who is well versed in R to enter data for her, which we are having a
hard time finding.  I would like information from R developers/users about
how/how well R interfaces with Excel (an easier skill set to find!)   In your
opinion, could it be as easy as uploading data from excel into R?

Also, do you know of a way to enlarge the R interface or otherwise assist in
making the program accessible to a low vision person?  My  limited understanding
leads me to believe that screen magnifiers like zoom text don't work
particularly well.  If you have information on that, I would very much
appreciate it.

Thanks for your help and for bearing with me!
Courtney



Courtney Bryant, EOS Specialist 
Equal Opportunity Services, Human Resources
Carnegie Mellon University
412-268-3930 | cbryant at andrew.cmu.edu

PIKAL Petr

2015-Jun-18 15:03 UTC

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Hi

I believe that others come with more elaborated answers.

Probably easiest way how to transfer Excel data to R is:

select rectangular area you want to transfer, preferably with sensible header.

pres Ctrl-C

In R enter command
object <- read.delim("clipboard")

possibly with header or NA options.

However this approach is not reproducible (you lose information about data
source in .Rhistory), so there are other ways (e.g. through saved CSV file) but
they can be more tricky.

Cheers
Petr

> -----Original Message-----
> From: R-help [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of
> Courtney Bryant
> Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2015 4:33 PM
> To: r-help at R-project.org
> Subject: [R] help for lay person assisting R user with disability
>
> Good Morning,
> I am currently working with a disabled R user who is a student here at
> CMU.  The student has both sight and mobility issues.  The student has
> asked for an assistant who is well versed in R to enter data for her,
> which we are having a hard time finding.  I would like information from
> R developers/users about how/how well R interfaces with Excel (an
> easier skill set to find!)   In your opinion, could it be as easy as
> uploading data from excel into R?
>
> Also, do you know of a way to enlarge the R interface or otherwise
> assist in making the program accessible to a low vision person?  My
> limited understanding leads me to believe that screen magnifiers like
> zoom text don't work particularly well.  If you have information on
> that, I would very much appreciate it.
>
> Thanks for your help and for bearing with me!
> Courtney
>
>
>
> Courtney Bryant, EOS Specialist
> Equal Opportunity Services, Human Resources Carnegie Mellon University
> 412-268-3930 | cbryant at andrew.cmu.edu
>
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see
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> guide.html
> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
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??dn? smlouvy s v?jimkou p??pad?, kdy k tomu byl p?semn? zmocn?n nebo p?semn?
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2015-Jun-18 15:15 UTC

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On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 10:32 AM, Courtney Bryant <cbryant at
andrew.cmu.edu>
wrote:
> Good Morning,
> I am currently working with a disabled R user who is a student here at
> CMU.  The student has both sight and mobility issues.  The student has
> asked for an assistant who is well versed in R to enter data for her, which
> we are having a hard time finding.  I would like information from R
> developers/users about how/how well R interfaces with Excel (an easier
> skill set to find!)   In your opinion, could it be as easy as uploading
> data from excel into R?
>
> Also, do you know of a way to enlarge the R interface or otherwise assist
> in making the program accessible to a low vision person?  My  limited
> understanding leads me to believe that screen magnifiers like zoom text
> don't work particularly well.  If you have information on that, I would
> very much appreciate it.
>
> Thanks for your help and for bearing with me!
> Courtney
>
>1. If the data file is in the form of a rectangular table with rows and
columns and the first row is a header row then if, in Excel, it is saved as
a .csv file it can be read into R like this:

   DF <- read.csv("/Users/JoeDoe/myspreadsheet.csv")

2. The openxlsx, readxl (and a number of other packages) can alternetely be
used to directly read in an xls or xlsx file, e.g.

  install.packages("readxl")
  library(readxl)
  DF <- read_excel("/Users/JoeDoe/myspreadsheet.xlsx")

3. The Windows magnifier that comes with Windows does work with R.

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David L Carlson

2015-Jun-18 15:41 UTC

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You may have people knowledgeable about R there at Carnegie Mellon since it
hosts a mirror for R software (one of 18 in the US). As Petr pointed out it is
relatively easy to transfer information from an Excel spreadsheet to R by
cutting and pasting (the method he suggested is for Windows computers) or by
saving the file in a tab delimited or comma separated format so data entry
should not be a problem assuming the data are arranged in a consistent format.

As for the interface, there are a number of ways of interacting with R, but the
default method involves a command window that allows you to type commands. On
Windows it is called the R Console and the GUI Preferences option on the Edit
menu tab allows you to choose the font, its size, and the number of rows and
columns. For example changing the default size of 10 to 24 makes the type and
the window larger. If the settings are saved, they should be preserved when the
program is restarted.

There are also some graphical user interfaces for R that may be easier to use
such as R Commander.

-------------------------------------
David L Carlson
Department of Anthropology
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77840-4352

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From: R-help [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of PIKAL Petr
Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2015 10:04 AM
To: Courtney Bryant; r-help at R-project.org
Subject: Re: [R] help for lay person assisting R user with disability

Hi

I believe that others come with more elaborated answers.

Probably easiest way how to transfer Excel data to R is:

select rectangular area you want to transfer, preferably with sensible header.

pres Ctrl-C

In R enter command
object <- read.delim("clipboard")

possibly with header or NA options.

However this approach is not reproducible (you lose information about data
source in .Rhistory), so there are other ways (e.g. through saved CSV file) but
they can be more tricky.

Cheers
Petr

> -----Original Message-----
> From: R-help [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of
> Courtney Bryant
> Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2015 4:33 PM
> To: r-help at R-project.org
> Subject: [R] help for lay person assisting R user with disability
>
> Good Morning,
> I am currently working with a disabled R user who is a student here at
> CMU.  The student has both sight and mobility issues.  The student has
> asked for an assistant who is well versed in R to enter data for her,
> which we are having a hard time finding.  I would like information from
> R developers/users about how/how well R interfaces with Excel (an
> easier skill set to find!)   In your opinion, could it be as easy as
> uploading data from excel into R?
>
> Also, do you know of a way to enlarge the R interface or otherwise
> assist in making the program accessible to a low vision person?  My
> limited understanding leads me to believe that screen magnifiers like
> zoom text don't work particularly well.  If you have information on
> that, I would very much appreciate it.
>
> Thanks for your help and for bearing with me!
> Courtney
>
>
>
> Courtney Bryant, EOS Specialist
> Equal Opportunity Services, Human Resources Carnegie Mellon University
> 412-268-3930 | cbryant at andrew.cmu.edu
>
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see
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> guide.html
> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
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Odes?latel e-mailu neodpov?d? za eventu?ln? ?kodu zp?sobenou modifikacemi ?i
zpo?d?n?m p?enosu e-mailu.

V p??pad?, ?e je tento e-mail sou??st? obchodn?ho jedn?n?:
- vyhrazuje si odes?latel pr?vo ukon?it kdykoliv jedn?n? o uzav?en? smlouvy, a
to z jak?hokoliv d?vodu i bez uveden? d?vodu.
- a obsahuje-li nab?dku, je adres?t opr?vn?n nab?dku bezodkladn? p?ijmout;
Odes?latel tohoto e-mailu (nab?dky) vylu?uje p?ijet? nab?dky ze strany p??jemce
s dodatkem ?i odchylkou.
- trv? odes?latel na tom, ?e p??slu?n? smlouva je uzav?ena teprve v?slovn?m
dosa?en?m shody na v?ech jej?ch n?le?itostech.
- odes?latel tohoto emailu informuje, ?e nen? opr?vn?n uzav?rat za spole?nost
??dn? smlouvy s v?jimkou p??pad?, kdy k tomu byl p?semn? zmocn?n nebo p?semn?
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2015-Jun-18 16:17 UTC

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On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 9:32 AM, Courtney Bryant <cbryant at
andrew.cmu.edu>
wrote:
> Good Morning,
> I am currently working with a disabled R user who is a student here at
> CMU.  The student has both sight and mobility issues.  The student has
> asked for an assistant who is well versed in R to enter data for her, which
> we are having a hard time finding.  I would like information from R
> developers/users about how/how well R interfaces with Excel (an easier
> skill set to find!)   In your opinion, could it be as easy as uploading
> data from excel into R?
>
> Also, do you know of a way to enlarge the R interface or otherwise assist
> in making the program accessible to a low vision person?  My  limited
> understanding leads me to believe that screen magnifiers like zoom text
> don't work particularly well.  If you have information on that, I would
> very much appreciate it.
>
> Thanks for your help and for bearing with me!
> Courtney
>
I am a bit confused (a normal condition for me). Is the student writing R
code or is the student running a application written in R? Also, since you
mentioned Excel, I am assuming that the student is using a PC running
Windows as opposed to Linux or a Mac.

If the student is writing R code, then I'd suggest that your computer
support person install Rstudio. It is cost free and can be downloaded here:
http://www.rstudio.com/ . The installer can then customize Rstudio to use a
really large font, if that would be helpful. Please forgive my lack of
knowledge about accessibility issues. If the student has trouble typing
(mobility issue?), this likely won't help. Would a speech to text / text to
speech interface help instead of a screen magnifier? I know next to nothing
about these tools, other than that they exist.

==
If the student is running an R application (which is what "enter data for
her" implies to me), then any accessibility issues would need to be
addressed in the application itself. But I don't understand why a "data
entry" assistant would need any skills in R itself in order to enter data
into it. But without knowing more, that's about all that I can say. One
thought: CMU has a college teaching "electrical and computer
engineering".
Depending on what that means, perhaps someone from that college (professor,
TA, or grad student) could see what your student is doing and perhaps have
some insights on how to help. Or is there a "computer club" on campus
where
some geeky student might be found? You might look here:
http://www.club.cc.cmu.edu/ If these are true geeks (and the web site
sounds promising), then a lure of beer & pizza would likely be irresistible
<grin>.

==
For interfacing R with Excel, you might want to look at RExcel here:
http://rcom.univie.ac.at/download.html#RExcel . It has a free student
version. But is this more for an Excel user who wants to use R for
analysis, not an R user wanting to use Excel for "data entry".

-- 
Yoda of Borg, we are. Futile, resistance is, yes. Assimilated, you will be.

My sister opened a computer store in Hawaii. She sells C shells down by the
seashore.
If someone tell you that nothing is impossible:
Ask him to dribble a football.

He's about as useful as a wax frying pan.

10 to the 12th power microphones = 1 Megaphone

Maranatha! <><
John McKown

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Duncan Murdoch

2015-Jun-18 16:39 UTC

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On 18/06/2015 11:32 AM, Courtney Bryant wrote:> Good Morning,
> I am currently working with a disabled R user who is a student here at CMU.
The student has both sight and mobility issues.  The student has asked for an
assistant who is well versed in R to enter data for her, which we are having a
hard time finding.  I would like information from R developers/users about
how/how well R interfaces with Excel (an easier skill set to find!)   In your
opinion, could it be as easy as uploading data from excel into R?
> 
> Also, do you know of a way to enlarge the R interface or otherwise assist
in making the program accessible to a low vision person?  My  limited
understanding leads me to believe that screen magnifiers like zoom text
don't work particularly well.  If you have information on that, I would very
much appreciate it.
> 
There was an article not too long ago in the R Journal about this issue;
you can read it here:

http://journal.r-project.org/archive/2013-1/godfrey.pdf

I think the main R thing that has changed since then is the rise in the
prominence and maturity of RStudio.  At that time the author didn't find
it very easy to use, but it might be worth investigating again.

The author put together a web page

http://r-resources.massey.ac.nz/StatSoftware/

that you might find useful as well.

Duncan Murdoch

Liz Hare

2015-Jun-18 16:41 UTC

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Hi Courtney and John,

The RStudio environment mentioned below will not work with speech output (I
tried with Window-Eyes awhile ago). Some of my clients use it but I have no
experience with it. Since the student is partially sighted, they might be able
to customize the environment with big fonts and contrast, I?m just not sure.

Using a screen reader like Window-Eyes, the student could use the R GUI
environment, although it?s a little frustrating because it doesn?t speak a lot
and you need to use the mouse keys a lot.

The other option if you have to stick with Windows  is to run R at the command
prompt, which makes interaction slightly easier but you?d have to figure out how
to log the output.

What is being recommended for the rest of the students in the class? Ideally,
this student?s experience should be as close as possible to the others?.

Liz> On Jun 18, 2015, at 12:17 PM, John McKown <john.archie.mckown at
gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 9:32 AM, Courtney Bryant <cbryant at
andrew.cmu.edu>
> wrote:
> 
>> Good Morning,
>> I am currently working with a disabled R user who is a student here at
>> CMU.  The student has both sight and mobility issues.  The student has
>> asked for an assistant who is well versed in R to enter data for her,
which
>> we are having a hard time finding.  I would like information from R
>> developers/users about how/how well R interfaces with Excel (an easier
>> skill set to find!)   In your opinion, could it be as easy as uploading
>> data from excel into R?
>> 
>> Also, do you know of a way to enlarge the R interface or otherwise
assist
>> in making the program accessible to a low vision person?  My  limited
>> understanding leads me to believe that screen magnifiers like zoom text
>> don't work particularly well.  If you have information on that, I
would
>> very much appreciate it.
>> 
>> Thanks for your help and for bearing with me!
>> Courtney
>> 
> 
> I am a bit confused (a normal condition for me). Is the student writing R
> code or is the student running a application written in R? Also, since you
> mentioned Excel, I am assuming that the student is using a PC running
> Windows as opposed to Linux or a Mac.
> 
> If the student is writing R code, then I'd suggest that your computer
> support person install Rstudio. It is cost free and can be downloaded here:
> http://www.rstudio.com/ . The installer can then customize Rstudio to use a
> really large font, if that would be helpful. Please forgive my lack of
> knowledge about accessibility issues. If the student has trouble typing
> (mobility issue?), this likely won't help. Would a speech to text /
text to
> speech interface help instead of a screen magnifier? I know next to nothing
> about these tools, other than that they exist.
> 
> ==> 
> If the student is running an R application (which is what "enter data
for
> her" implies to me), then any accessibility issues would need to be
> addressed in the application itself. But I don't understand why a
"data
> entry" assistant would need any skills in R itself in order to enter
data
> into it. But without knowing more, that's about all that I can say. One
> thought: CMU has a college teaching "electrical and computer
engineering".
> Depending on what that means, perhaps someone from that college (professor,
> TA, or grad student) could see what your student is doing and perhaps have
> some insights on how to help. Or is there a "computer club" on
campus where
> some geeky student might be found? You might look here:
> http://www.club.cc.cmu.edu/ If these are true geeks (and the web site
> sounds promising), then a lure of beer & pizza would likely be
irresistible
> <grin>.
> 
> ==> 
> For interfacing R with Excel, you might want to look at RExcel here:
> http://rcom.univie.ac.at/download.html#RExcel . It has a free student
> version. But is this more for an Excel user who wants to use R for
> analysis, not an R user wanting to use Excel for "data entry".
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Yoda of Borg, we are. Futile, resistance is, yes. Assimilated, you will be.
> 
> My sister opened a computer store in Hawaii. She sells C shells down by the
> seashore.
> If someone tell you that nothing is impossible:
> Ask him to dribble a football.
> 
> He's about as useful as a wax frying pan.
> 
> 10 to the 12th power microphones = 1 Megaphone
> 
> Maranatha! <><
> John McKown
> 
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> 
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Bert Gunter

2015-Jun-18 16:57 UTC

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Given that neither you nor the student are (skilled?) R users, I think you
would do better contacting someone locally for help -- there will be many
in the statistics and social sciences departments (among others).

There are several R packages that interface with Excel (e.g. RExcel), but
it may merely be a matter of reading in text files via R's native
facilities (e.g. read.csv ) . A local resource can best help you sort out
what would work best in your situation imho.

Cheers,
Bert

Bert Gunter

"Data is not information. Information is not knowledge. And knowledge is
certainly not wisdom."
   -- Clifford Stoll

On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 7:32 AM, Courtney Bryant <cbryant at
andrew.cmu.edu>
wrote:
> Good Morning,
> I am currently working with a disabled R user who is a student here at
> CMU.  The student has both sight and mobility issues.  The student has
> asked for an assistant who is well versed in R to enter data for her, which
> we are having a hard time finding.  I would like information from R
> developers/users about how/how well R interfaces with Excel (an easier
> skill set to find!)   In your opinion, could it be as easy as uploading
> data from excel into R?
>
> Also, do you know of a way to enlarge the R interface or otherwise assist
> in making the program accessible to a low vision person?  My  limited
> understanding leads me to believe that screen magnifiers like zoom text
> don't work particularly well.  If you have information on that, I would
> very much appreciate it.
>
> Thanks for your help and for bearing with me!
> Courtney
>
>
>
> Courtney Bryant, EOS Specialist
> Equal Opportunity Services, Human Resources
> Carnegie Mellon University
> 412-268-3930 | cbryant at andrew.cmu.edu
>
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Paul Murrell

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[R] help for lay person assisting R user with disability

Hi

Jonathon Godfrey has published some information and guidelines on the 
accessibility of R (and other stat software), e.g., ...

http://r-resources.massey.ac.nz/StatSoftware/
http://journal.r-project.org/archive/2013-1/godfrey.pdf

Paul

On 06/19/15 02:32, Courtney Bryant wrote:> Good Morning, I am currently working with a disabled R user who is a
> student here at CMU.  The student has both sight and mobility issues.
> The student has asked for an assistant who is well versed in R to
> enter data for her, which we are having a hard time finding.  I would
> like information from R developers/users about how/how well R
> interfaces with Excel (an easier skill set to find!)   In your
> opinion, could it be as easy as uploading data from excel into R?
>
> Also, do you know of a way to enlarge the R interface or otherwise
> assist in making the program accessible to a low vision person?  My
> limited understanding leads me to believe that screen magnifiers like
> zoom text don't work particularly well.  If you have information on
> that, I would very much appreciate it.
>
> Thanks for your help and for bearing with me! Courtney
>
>
>
> Courtney Bryant, EOS Specialist Equal Opportunity Services, Human
> Resources Carnegie Mellon University 412-268-3930 |
> cbryant at andrew.cmu.edu
>
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[R] help for lay person assisting R user with disability

[R] help for lay person assisting R user with disability

[R] help for lay person assisting R user with disability

[R] help for lay person assisting R user with disability

[R] help for lay person assisting R user with disability

[R] help for lay person assisting R user with disability