From: "Jeremy Baxter" To: Subject: [R] Summary: Teaching with R a quick survey. Date: Saturday, November 10, 2001 10:57 PM Hi I would like to start by thanking everyone that replied. Thank you for the information, and for the comments about how or why you use it and thankx for the encouragement re my talk.... Please note that I do not claim to have ellicited a reply from all users of R, this is a quick survey not a census. I have tried to break the responces down to the following categories: Where: (hopefully my geography is not as bad as my teachers claimed??) When: Undergraduate level or post graduate level. I included all the posts that i recieved. Thank you. jeremy ----------------------- Where: Austria Vienna University of Technology, Department of Statistics Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration: Vienna University of Technology Austalia: University of Technology, Sydney Brazil: Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife/PE France: University of Lyon The Netherlands: University of Nijmegen, Dept. of Chemometrics, ED Nijmegen SPAIN: Instituto de Ciencias de la Tierra (CSIC), Barcelona Royal College "Escorial-Maria Cristina", San Lorenzo del Escorial(Madrid) University of the Basque Country, Bilbao Institut Catala d'Oncologia Hospitalet, Barcelona Switzerland : ETH, Zurich Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL Germany: Fachbereich Statistik, Universität Dortmund. New Zealand: The University of Auckland Portugal: Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão in Viana do Castelo Taiwan: National Cheng-Kung University United Kingdom: UEA, Norwich St Andrews University, Scotland Durham University Nordic School of Public Health United States: University of Florida University of Pennsylvania Appalachian State University University of Virginia University of Waterloo College of Staten Island/ City University of New York University of Washington, Seattle Reed University Non Teaching: Rhode Island, USA National Eye Institute, USA Sao Paulo Fisheries Institute, Sao Paulo State, Brazil. Bank of Canada (Canada's central bank) Forest Insect Group of the Royal Forest Department, Thailand. University of Madras, India Undergrad: 1. not-only-theoretical-parts (e.g. Statistics 2, Computational Statistics, Quality Assurance, Factorial Design, ...). 2. 1 third year course on either genralized linear models or time series ( is switches) 3. Will use this year with our second year statistical modelling course 4. If I am brave enough with the new first year stats course 5. Main first year course + one first year service course, and for 3rd/4th year modules in generalized linear modelling, sampling and computer intensive stats. Our main 2nd year course will be converted to R (from Minitab) this year 6. A first course in probability and statistics for computer science majors, Linear regression, and occasionally in math stat (all undergraduate classes). 7. Introductory stats class (pre-calc assumption only). 8. An undergrad/grad categorical data analysis course and a service course for undergraduate computer science majors 9. Main second year Statistics course (about 1500 students per year) and either R or S-PLUS for most of our third year course and subsequent ones. 10. inear models, design of experiments, and basically whatever other course I might be teaching. The students are using this from about the 5 semester. 11. All the way through the undergraduate degree, with explicit R practicals given to the 1st and 2nd year students 12. Introductory statistics courses (all disciplines, with strongr epresentation of biology, economics, sociology, political science, and the occasional math student) 13. Industrial Statistics. 14. Teaching (introductory) statistics to chemistry students. 15. Epidemiological data and custom graphical presentation. 16. 1st and 2nd year stats courses Postgrad: 1. Ecology/statistics: postgraduate course in ecological modeling and estimation). 2. Teaching to stats, maths, comp.science, and other students; but not to biology, agricultural, plant sciences (where SyStat is used) 3. Graduate methods course in psychology 4. We have 2 masters courses coming on stream this year that will use R. 5. PhD work: analyse oznoe datasets and compare them with many different variables from the atmosphere and so. 6. Graduate course entitled Analysis of Survival Data. 7. R for simulations in their PhD research. 8. for both teaching (masters, under and post graduate) and research, in all fields of statistics and particularly multivariate analysis. 9. Econometrics I and II (4th year curriculum students) 10. Master/Ph.D.) Statistical Methods, Linear Model, Statistical Computation and Simulation, Reliability Analysis, Special Topics in Regression Analysis 11. Postgraduate courses on Linear Models (Regression, ANOVA) and Multivariate Analysis to third and fourth year Economics students. 12. Graduate courses on computational statistics and on applied statistics 13. stats course in PhD program not specified: Applied Mathematics Data Engineering and Statistics Teaching survival analysis and analysis of categorical data (glm) Sensory analysis as part of the Food Engineering degree Data mining course Biostatistics Business Statistics Statistical Computing Actuarial Mathematics ----------------------------------------- ecology/statistics (postgraduate course in ecological modeling and estimation), University of Florida, US -- 318 Carr Hall bolker@zoo.ufl.edu Zoology Department, University of Florida http://www.zoo.ufl.edu/bolker Box 118525 (ph) 352-392-5697 Gainesville, FL 32611-8525 (fax) 352-392-3704 ----------------------------------------- ETH Zurich / Switzerland : 1) Teaching Postgradaute course Statistics Teaching to stats, maths, comp.science, and other students; but not to biology, agricultural, plant sciences (where SyStat is used) 2) almost all of research in (Mathematical) Statistics 3) for all data analysis including paid projects I'm very interested in your summary. Also wondering how you can try to make sure to get an answer from almost every institution that *does* use R.. Regards, Martin Maechler http://stat.ethz.ch/~maechler/ Seminar fuer Statistik, ETH-Zentrum LEO D10 Leonhardstr. 27 ETH (Federal Inst. Technology) 8092 Zurich SWITZERLAND phone: x-41-1-632-3408 fax: ...-1228 <>< ----------------------------------------- Where: Fachbereich Statistik, Universität Dortmund, Germany. Sections: Dependent on who is teaching in nearly all not-only-theoretical-parts (e.g. Statistics 2, Computational Statistics, Quality Assurance, Factorial Design, ...). Uwe Ligges ----------------------------------------- Health Psychology Unit University of Technology, Sydney uses R for statistical analysis. Jim (Research Psychologist, Health Psychology Unit, UTS) ----------------------------------------- R is used 1 third year course on either genralized linear models or time series ( is switches) Will use this year with our second year statistical modelling course If I am brave enough with the new first year stats course -- G.Janacek 44 (0) 1603 592489 Dean fax 44 (0) 1603 593868 School of Maths secretary 44 (0) 1603 592488 UEA Norwich NR4 7TJ ----------------------------------------- Vienna University of Technology, Department of Statistics, Austria R is used in several classes of the programs Applied Mathematics Data Engineering and Statistics and of course in most of our research. Best, Fritz -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Friedrich Leisch Institut für Statistik Tel: (+43 1) 58801 10715 Technische Universität Wien Fax: (+43 1) 58801 10798 Wiedner Hauptstraße 8-10/1071 Friedrich.Leisch@ci.tuwien.ac.at A-1040 Wien, Austria ----------------------------------------- I'm using it in a graduate methods course in psychology here. See my web page for the syllabus. I'm not sure how many students will continue to use it, or revert to SPSS (or, worse, JMP-IN) to do their data analysis. But I am sure that it is more than zero! Jon Jonathan Baron, Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania Home page: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~baron http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~leisch ----------------------------------------- Hi, We're using R quite extensively in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at St Andrews Uni. Scotland. Currently we're using it for our main first year course + one first year service course, and for 3rd/4th year modules in generalized linear modelling, sampling and computer intensive stats. Our main 2nd year course will be converted to R (from Minitab) this year, and we have 2 masters courses coming on stream this year that will use R. Simon ______________________________________________________________________ > Simon Wood snw@st-and.ac.uk http://www.ruwpa.st-and.ac.uk/simon.html > The Mathematical Institute, North Haugh, St. Andrews, Fife KY16 9SS UK > Direct telephone: (0)1334 463799 Indirect fax: (0)1334 463748 ----------------------------------------- I have been using R to teach a first course in probability and statistics for computer science majors, Linear regression, and occasionally in math stat (all undergraduate classes). Started using R in the first class fall 1998. Thinking about using it in a new class (read: ... yet to be developed) for biology majors. Alan ---------------------- Alan T. Arnholt Associate Professor Department of Mathematical Sciences Appalachian State University Tel: (828) 262-2863 Fax: (828) 265-8617 ----------------------------------------- Hi I am using R for all statistical problems which are coming along. At the moment I have finished the evaluation of a survey on big predator acceptance. Kind regards --christian Dr.sc.math.Christian W. Hoffmann Mathematics and Statistical Computing Landscape Modeling and Web Applications Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL Zuercherstrasse 111 CH-8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland phone: ++41-1-739 22 77 fax: ++41-1-739 22 15 e-mail: christian.hoffmann_at_wsl.ch__prevent_spamming www: http://www.wsl.ch/staff/christian.hoffmann/ ----------------------------------------- We use R for statistical analysis of ecological data and time series of climate records. We also use it, integrated with other tools, for the classification of remotely-sensed imagery. Agus Dr. Agustin Lobo Instituto de Ciencias de la Tierra (CSIC) Lluis Sole Sabaris s/n 08028 Barcelona SPAIN tel 34 93409 5410 fax 34 93411 0012 alobo@ija.csic.es ----------------------------------------- hi jeremy i use R for my PhD work. I analyse oznoe datasets and compare them with many different variables from the atmosphere and so. I work in the Institute for Atmopheric and Climate Science, it's part of the federal institute of technology Zurich (ETH Zurich) Switzerland. links the university: www.ethz.ch the institute: www.iac.ethz.ch my page: www.iac.ethz.ch/staff/maeder/ greuss joerg -- Joerg Maeder IACETH INSTITUTE PhD Student FOR ATMOSPHERIC Phone: +41 1 633 36 25 AND CLIMATE SCIENCE Fax: +41 1 633 10 58 ETH ZÜRICH Switzerland ----------------------------------------- I do a lot of teaching with S-Plus which would apply to most R users. I have a lot of material at http://hesweb1.med.virginia.edu/biostat/teaching/statcomp -- Frank E Harrell Jr Prof. of Biostatistics & Statistics Div. of Biostatistics & Epidem. Dept. of Health Evaluation Sciences U. Virginia School of Medicine http://hesweb1.med.virginia.edu/biostat ----------------------------------------- We use R in Statistics and Actuarial Science at the University of Waterloo. In particular, I use the software to teach a graduate course entitled Analysis of Survival Data. Other instructors may also use R in their teaching. I'm afraid I don't have any firm details. David Matthews ----------------------------------------- I am using R for an introductory stats class (pre-calc assumption only). It seems to be working out well. I've developed some notes for using R at this level which one day may make it to CRAN. Institution: College of Staten Island/ City University of New York Course: Applied statistics with computers --JOhn .................................................................... . John Verzani mailto:verzani@math.csi.cuny.edu . . Dept. of Mathematics http://www.math.csi.cuny.edu/~verzani . City University of New York tel: (718) 982-3623 . . College of Staten Island fax: (718) 982-3631 . . Staten Island, NY 10314 . .................................................................... ----------------------------------------- We use S for statistics courses for graduate students in Statistics and Biostatistics. Some of the students and a couple of the faculty use R rather than S-PLUS. Many students use R for simulations in their PhD research (I don't know if you include this as teaching) -thomas Thomas Lumley Asst. Professor, Biostatistics tlumley@u.washington.edu University of Washington, Seattle ----------------------------------------- We use it here at the University of Lyon, Biometry Lab, France, for both teaching (masters, under and post graduate) and research, in all fields of statistics and particularly multivariate analysis. http://pbil.univ-lyon1.fr/R/enseignement.html Jean -- Jean Thioulouse - Equipe "Ecologie Statistique" - UMR CNRS 5558 Universite Lyon 1, Bat. Mendel, 69622 Villeurbanne Cedex, France Fax: (33) 4 78 89 27 19 Tel: (33) 4 72 43 27 56 http://pbil.univ-lyon1.fr/ADE-4/JTHome.html ----------------------------------------- FWIW, I have used R in two courses so far (an undergrad/grad categorical data analysis course and a service course for undergraduate computer science majors). In the future I'll probably use it an all the courses that I teach that require computing. I believe that a few of my colleagues in the Dept. of Statistics are using R in classes as well. There is also someone in the Department of Political Science here who has used R in a graduate course over there. Finally, Ben Bolker in our zoology department posts to the R lists quite regularly and I imagine that he is also using R in his teaching (unfortunately I don't know him personally). Hope that helps. -- Brett Presnell Department of Statistics University of Florida http://www.stat.ufl.edu/~presnell/ ----------------------------------------- where: Rhode Island, USA how: self-employed consultant; preparing and analyzing statistical experimental designs for chemical, biotechnology industries -- Robert Burrows New England Biometrics rbb@nebiometrics.com ----------------------------------------- I use R for biostatistical research and analysis, I use it as a calculator, and I use it to manage my lists of bird sightings (the latter is not part of my official duties). TAC ---------------------------------------------- Terry A. Cox, MD, PhD Division of Epidemiology and Clinical Research National Eye Institute National Institutes of Health 31 Center Drive, MSC 2510 Building 31, Room 6A52 Bethesda, MD 20892-2510 Phone: 301-496-6583 FAX: 301-496-2297 mailto:tac@nei.nih.gov ----------------------------------------- At Auckland we use R for our main second year Statistics course (about 1500 students per year) and either R or S-PLUS for most of our third year course and subsequent ones. We also use SAS from third year. R use would be increasing, S-PLUS declining I think. Most of what we expect students to do can now be done using R. Hope this helps. David Scott _________________________________________________________________ David Scott Department of Statistics Tamaki Campus The University of Auckland, PB 92019 Auckland NEW ZEALAND Phone: +64 9 373 7599 ext 6830 Fax: +64 9 373 7000 Email: d.scott@Auckland.ac.nz President, New Zealand Statistical Association ----------------------------------------- Hola! We use R (or at least I use it) for linear models, design of experiments, and basically whatever other course I might be teaching. The students are using this from about the 5 semester. Kjetil Halvoersen ----------------------------------------- My name is Antonio Olinto. I'm a marine biologist and I work at Sao Paulo Fisheries Institute, Sao Paulo State, Brazil. I'm using R in many things related to fish dymanics (linear and non-linear model adjustment, statistical tests and descriptive stat. ), fishing effort standardization (glm), etc. Why to use it? It's a freeware and it's mailing list is too much better than any technical support. The way it works helps a non-statistician to understand better modelling and statistics in general. Best wishes, Antonio ----------------------------------------- In the Maths Dept at Durham (U.K.) we use R in Statistics teaching all the way through the undergraduate degree, with explicit R practicals given to the 1st and 2nd year students. Incidentally many of us also use R as our primary research tool. Cheers, Jonathan. -- Jonathan Rougier Science Laboratories Department of Mathematical Sciences South Road University of Durham Durham DH1 3LE tel: +44 (0)191 374 2361, fax: +44 (0)191 374 7388 http://www.maths.dur.ac.uk/stats/people/jcr/jcr.html ----------------------------------------- I use R in the introductory statistics courses here at Reed. The intro courses are taken by students from all disciplines, with strong representation of biology, economics, sociology, political science, and the occasional math student. It does not assume calculus, though in recent years about 80-90% of the students have had at least a semester of calculus, or a high school calculus course. There is a weekly lab section. In the mathematical statistics course I do less data analysis, because most of those students have already had the intro course, but whatever we do will be in R. Reed is a small (1100 students) liberal arts school, in Portland Or, USA. regards albyn -- -------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.reed.edu/~jones Albyn Jones jones@reed.edu Reed College, Portland OR 97202 (503)-771-1112 x7418 ----------------------------------------- I do teach a course in Econometrics using R. This is a two semester course, after another course in Mathematical Statistics. Here are my data: Prof. Agustin Alonso Royal College "Escorial-Maria Cristina" San Lorenzo del Escorial(Madrid) Spain Course: Econometrics I and II. Fourth year of the curriculum in Business Administration. Enrolled: 70 students. I wish you a good luck in your talk to the South African Statistical Association Sincerely yours Agustin Alonso ----------------------------------------- I am using R, since version 1.1.1, in my teaching of the following courses (from that time to now): Graduate level (Master/Ph.D.) Statistical Methods, Linear Model, Statistical Computation and Simulation, Reliability Analysis, Special Topics in Regression Analysis Undergraduate level: Industrial Statistics I had being an user of S-Plus since I was a Ph.D. student (around 1990) till I found R (version 1.1.1). S-Plus has being the primary tool for my Ph.D. research, research afterwards, teaching, and consulting. Since my students are statistics-majored, I strongly believe that they should understand how statistical methods being carried out, or even done by themselves, besides knowing how and when to apply them. Due to this reason, I emphsize the capability of programming of some statistical methods and carring out simulation study, via the use of non-menu-driven R. Certainly, as S-Plus turned to version 4, its heavily using computer system resouce to build up its menu-driven stuff and its increasing in puchasing cost are my other reasons to be away from it. Best regards, C. Joseph Lu Associate Professor Department of Statistics National Cheng-Kung University Tainan Taiwan, ROC ----------------------------------------- University of the Basque Country (Bilbao, Spain) School of Economics Used to teach postgraduate courses on Linear Models (Regression, ANOVA) and Multivariate Analysis to third and fourth year Economics students. I myself and several other faculty members use it for research and as an "all around" statistical package. ft. -- Fernando TUSELL e-mail: Departamento de Econometría y Estadística etptupaf@bs.ehu.es Facultad de CC.EE. y Empresariales Tel: (+34)94.601.3733 Avenida Lendakari Aguirre, 83 Fax: (+34)94.601.3754 E-48015 BILBAO (Spain) Secr: (+34)94.601.3740 PGP: finger etptupaf@bsdx01.bs.ehu.es http://etdx01.bs.ehu.es ----------------------------------------- Hi... I use R for teaching at the Universidade Federal of Pernambuco in Brazil (Department of Statistics). I teach graduate courses on computational statistics and on applied statistics. I have been using R in this courses. We produce graphics, fit linear regressions, fit GLMs, fit ARIMA models, etc. We also perform simple Monte Carlo simulations using R. The students enjoy R and it has been a pleasant experience. Cheers, Francisco. -- Francisco Cribari-Neto voice: +55-81-32718420 Departamento de Estatistica fax: +55-81-32718422 Universidade Federal de Pernambuco e-mail: cribari@de.ufpe.br Recife/PE, 50740-540, Brazil http://www.de.ufpe.br/~cribari ----------------------------------------- I use R for teaching (introductory) statistics to chemistry students; in order not to have them learn the ins and outs of R syntax, I coupled it to a web interface (similar to Rweb). You can find the web pages at www.sci.kun.nl/cgi-bin-webchem/Stat/index.pl Cheers, Ron ---------------------------------+------------------------------------ Ron Wehrens | Dept. of Chemometrics Email: rwehrens@sci.kun.nl | University of Nijmegen http://www.sci.kun.nl/cac/ | Toernooiveld 1 Tel: +31 24 365 2053 | 6525 ED Nijmegen Fax: +31 24 365 2653 | The Netherlands ----------------------------------------- I have been teaching R at the Nordic School of Public Health for two years. We use it for analysis of epidemiological data and custom graphical presentation. Mark -- Mark Myatt ----------------------------------------- I work at the Bank of Canada (Canada's central bank) and use R (and sometimes Splus) extensively for my research in time series. However, neither R nor Splus are used very much in the institution, other than by me. Paul Gilbert or Head Statistician/Statisticien en chef, Department of Monetary and Financial Analysis, /Département des Études monétaires et financiers, Bank of Canada/Banque du Canada 234 Wellington St., Ottawa, Canada K1A 0G9 (613) 782-7346 ----------------------------------------- I'm working here in the Forest Insect Group of the Royal Forest Department, Thailand. I discovered R early this year after a posting to ENTOMO-L. I, and I hope later we (including some associates in Laos) use it for rather classic stats and plotting-the sort that biologist do a lot of. Cheers, Robert Cunningham ----------------------------------------- I read your posting in R-group. We also use R for our research purposes Country: India University: University of Madras Institute: School of Life Sciences study: Ecological and Environmental studies ----------------------------------------- I have been using R for teaching survival analysis and analysis of categorical data (glm) for 2 years at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain. Reasons: 1. R is free and low wheight. Students can have their own copy. 2. We have campus license of SPSS but this does not have easy capabilities for glm nor parametric survivam models. -- Victor Moreno V.Moreno@ico.scs.es Servei d'Epidemiologia i Registre del Cancer http://lbe.uab.es Institut Catala d'Oncologia Gran Via km 2.7, 08907 Hospitalet, Barcelona, Spain Tel: + 34 93260 7434 / 7401 / 7812 fax +34 93260 7787 ----------------------------------------- I am teaching a course on sensory analysis as part of the Food Engineering degree at the Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão in Viana do Castelo (Portugal). I have been using R in my practical classes to demonstrate R's capabilities in terms of graphing, simple hypothesis testing, nonparametric methods (Friedman, Chi-square, etc), ANOVA, multiple comparisons. My students have been given a mini-project, where they will have to conduct a sensory test (most of them opted for affective tests) and later analyse their results from that study. Some of these students may also need to use some multivariate methods, such as PCA.I have suggested that they use R, although they could also use other softwares that are available to them. Many of my students have regular jobs and find it difficult to obtain permission from their employer to attend classes. One of the reasons for choosing R was to allow these students to work on tutorials outside of the scheduled classes, either at home or at work. For the next semester, I intend to introduce R in a class on Shelf-life testing. This will be based on regression analysis and introducing shelf-life models, such as those based on the Weibull distribution. Peter -------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Ho GradIFST Departamento de Ciências de Engenharia e Tecnológica Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão Instituto Politénico de Viana do Castelo Avenida do Atlântico- Apartado 574 4901-908 Viana do Castelo Email: peter@estg.ipvc.pt ----------------------------------------- Current use @ Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration: 1st and 2nd year stats courses stats course in PhD program data mining course @ Vienna University of Technology Biostatistics Business Statistics Statistical Computing Actuarial Mathematics Best -k -- Jeremy Baxter J.Baxter@ru.ac.za Views expressed above, no matter how badly spelt, are my own... i think? -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) 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