[R] Reasons to Use R in a Public Administrations and Ideas for a Short Training

[David L Carlson]

Courses are good for people who are motivated to learn. It sounds like you need to generate the motivation first. Why not develop 4 - 5 case study examples? Kinds of analyses currently performed on Excel that would be easier to replicate and repeat using simple R scripts so that you are showing how it would be done in Excel and then how it would be done in R structuring the code so that running a similar analysis requires only minor adjustments in contrast to Excel which might involve copying formula blocks into a new spreadsheet tab or creating templates that fail and are hard to debug.

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David L Carlson
Department of Anthropology
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77843-4352

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From: R-help <r-help-bounces using r-project.org> On Behalf Of Lorenzo Isella
Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2018 8:47 AM
To: r-help using r-project.org
Subject: [R] Reasons to Use R in a Public Administrations and Ideas for a Short Training

Dear All,
Ages ago I posted to this mailing list asking for advice about to evangelize the use of R in an international public administration where the fact that R is free is not a decisive factor (actually its being "freeware" may even be seen negatively). After a long time, I think it is worthwhile asking the question again and see what suggestions other users have.

Another question related to that: let's say you have the possibility to give a short course (most likely short of 10 hours) to people who are not trained in statistics (people with a background in international relations or political scientists frustrated at Excel and who sometimes have to do a number of repetitive tasks). How would you formulate a short training to make them not R proficient users, but aware and looking forward to learning more about R?
Any suggestion and/or pointer to online resources is appreciated.
Many thanks

Lorenzo

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