Submitted by covingto on Thu, 07/15/2010 - 14:19
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Some professors have contacted us about using Red-R in the classroom for statistics lectures.
I think this is a great idea and we can incorporate more suggestions into Red-R that would make it better as a teaching tool (hopefully without loosing sight of the main function which is as an analysis tool).
Any comments or materials that users would like to share about this topic are open for discussion. If there are any changes that we could make to the software that would help in the classroom please post them here.
Bar graphs are hard to do in R package base on my experience - frustrating. Gnuplots and matplotlib can do better. I like a plotfile pylab matplotlib. It uses CSV files graph bar and lines.
http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/pylab_examples/plotfile_demo.html
gnuplots has bar-charts/histograms/boxes.
Sorry, I could not find the link of the example right now.
It is the examples that comes in gnuplot - immigration example.
If RED-R can do better bar graphs using matplotlib + R packages. RED-R is a winner.
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