Folks: I was wondering if you all would suggest some helpful RStudio configurations that make recording a session via e.g. zoom the most useful for students doing remote learning. Thoughts? --j -- Jonathan A. Greenberg, PhD Randall Endowed Professor and Associate Professor of Remote Sensing Global Environmental Analysis and Remote Sensing (GEARS) Laboratory Natural Resources & Environmental Science University of Nevada, Reno 1664 N Virginia St MS/0186 Reno, NV 89557 Phone: 415-763-5476 https://www.gearslab.org/ [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
Way off topic. Ask at RStudio. This is **R-Help** -- help on R programming. RStudio is a private company. Bert Gunter "The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along and sticking things into it." -- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip ) On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 3:05 PM Jonathan Greenberg <jgreenberg at unr.edu> wrote:> Folks: > > I was wondering if you all would suggest some helpful RStudio > configurations that make recording a session via e.g. zoom the most useful > for students doing remote learning. Thoughts? > > --j > > -- > Jonathan A. Greenberg, PhD > Randall Endowed Professor and Associate Professor of Remote Sensing > Global Environmental Analysis and Remote Sensing (GEARS) Laboratory > Natural Resources & Environmental Science > University of Nevada, Reno > 1664 N Virginia St MS/0186 > Reno, NV 89557 > Phone: 415-763-5476 > https://www.gearslab.org/ > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >[[alternative HTML version deleted]]
Excellent question! I think most R courses use RStudio, so it is completely
appropriate to ask about how to help people learn R using RStudio.
I don't have a lot experience with virtual teaching, and very limited
experience with anything other than short-term workshops.
I think that there is tremendous value, during the 'in person' portion
of a course, in doing interactive and even 'ad hoc' analysis, perhaps
especially handling the off-the-wall questions that participants might raise
(when I have to struggle to figure out what the R answer is, and then convey to
the attendees my thinking process), and making all kinds of mistakes, including
simple typos (requiring me to explain what the error message means, and how I
diagnosed the problem and arrived at a solution that was other than a
pull-it-out-of-the-hat miracle).
With this in mind, I try to increase the prominence of the console portion of
the RStudio interface. I place it at the top left of the screen (this might be a
remnant of in-person presentations, where the heads of people in front often
block the view of the lines where code is being enter; this is obviously not
relevant in a virtual context). Usually I keep the script portion of the display
visible at the bottom left, with only a few lines showing, as a kind of cheat
sheet for me, rather than for the students to 'follow along').
I use a large font, which I think helps in both virtual and physical sessions in
part because it limits the amount of information on the screen, causing me to
slow my presentation enough that the students can absorb what I am saying.
Perhaps as a consequence of the limited screen real-estate, students often ask
'to see the last command' so I now include in the right panel the
'History' tab. The division is asymmetric, so the console continues to
take up the majority of screen real estate.
The end result of a sequence of operations is often a pretty picture, but since
this is only the end result and not the meat of the learning experience I tend
to keep the plot window (lower right) relatively small, and try to remember to
expand things at the time when the end result is in sight (so to speak;)).
I hope others with more direct experience are not dissuaded by Bert's
opinions, and offer up their own experiences or resource recommendations.
Martin Morgan
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<r-help-bounces at r-project.org on behalf of jgreenberg at unr.edu>
wrote:
Folks:
I was wondering if you all would suggest some helpful RStudio
configurations that make recording a session via e.g. zoom the most useful
for students doing remote learning. Thoughts?
--j
--
Jonathan A. Greenberg, PhD
Randall Endowed Professor and Associate Professor of Remote Sensing
Global Environmental Analysis and Remote Sensing (GEARS) Laboratory
Natural Resources & Environmental Science
University of Nevada, Reno
1664 N Virginia St MS/0186
Reno, NV 89557
Phone: 415-763-5476
https://www.gearslab.org/
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The jab about a "private company" detracted from your point. It is a public benefit corporation, but either way they produce open source software that is frequently used to introduce people to R, and the company management structure is irrelevant. While I would have preferred to see a question that was open to any presentation format, forbidding discussion of how to teach R just because the query happens to limit itself to RStudio seems excessively narrow to me. I have been frustrated by the fact that there is no r-sig-windows, since I find myself uncomfortably discussing OS-specific issues on R-help for which there is no better place to forward them. Using the multi-OS RStudio for teaching R seems rather less off-topic than that. On August 13, 2020 3:15:31 PM PDT, Bert Gunter <bgunter.4567 at gmail.com> wrote:>Way off topic. Ask at RStudio. This is **R-Help** -- help on R >programming. RStudio is a private company. > >Bert Gunter > >"The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along >and >sticking things into it." >-- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip ) > > >On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 3:05 PM Jonathan Greenberg <jgreenberg at unr.edu> >wrote: > >> Folks: >> >> I was wondering if you all would suggest some helpful RStudio >> configurations that make recording a session via e.g. zoom the most >useful >> for students doing remote learning. Thoughts? >> >> --j >> >> -- >> Jonathan A. Greenberg, PhD >> Randall Endowed Professor and Associate Professor of Remote Sensing >> Global Environmental Analysis and Remote Sensing (GEARS) Laboratory >> Natural Resources & Environmental Science >> University of Nevada, Reno >> 1664 N Virginia St MS/0186 >> Reno, NV 89557 >> Phone: 415-763-5476 >> https://www.gearslab.org/ >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide >> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >> > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > >______________________________________________ >R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >PLEASE do read the posting guide >http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.-- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity.
[Sorry about the misfire a second ago...] As others have said, for deeper questions, try RStudio's own lists or R-sig-teaching. However, FWIW, I seem to have gotten away with just using a separate virtual desktop with my usual work setup, and then switch to it when necessary. This was for Panopto video recordings, but Zoom et al. should be much the same. Compared to physical lecturing it is actually somewhat easier, because you don't need to worry so much about projector shortcomings, readability from the back row, etc. -pd> On 13 Aug 2020, at 20:58 , Jonathan Greenberg <jgreenberg at unr.edu> wrote: > > Folks: > > I was wondering if you all would suggest some helpful RStudio > configurations that make recording a session via e.g. zoom the most useful > for students doing remote learning. Thoughts? > > --j > > -- > Jonathan A. Greenberg, PhD > Randall Endowed Professor and Associate Professor of Remote Sensing > Global Environmental Analysis and Remote Sensing (GEARS) Laboratory > Natural Resources & Environmental Science > University of Nevada, Reno > 1664 N Virginia St MS/0186 > Reno, NV 89557 > Phone: 415-763-5476 > https://www.gearslab.org/ > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.-- Peter Dalgaard, Professor, Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Phone: (+45)38153501 Office: A 4.23 Email: pd.mes at cbs.dk Priv: PDalgd at gmail.com