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Why http://pj.freefaculty.org? Blackboard is a closed system and it is difficult to keep up-to-date. It also excludes non-students. I want my course notes and programs to remain available to you after the semester is over. Students at other institutions often find these pages useful. Everything is organized this rubric: http://pj.freefaculty.org/guides. The sections are “Computing- HOWTOs”, “Rcourse”, “stat”, “c-programming”, and “java-programming.” In the top section of “stat”, I have a Java applet that displays a “mind map” of the statistical offerings. If that does not help you to understand what’s going on, just browse down the page and the directory list is available. What files will you see there? The folders include source code that I use to produce the slide shows, the “pdf” output files, R code files, and maybe some graphics. Subversion repository. There is another way to keep up to date. I put everything–I mean everything–code, document markup, etc–into a “version management system” called Subversion. If you register for a free CRMDA account, you can have direct access to all of these files in an easy-to-update folder. Follow along with the instructions in my Subversion writeup: http://pj.freefaculty.org/guides/Computing-HOWTO/SubversionUse/SVN-intro. pdf to obtain access. About Computing Skills 1. The ability to use a computer effectively is vital for all researchers. While this course is not primarily about computing, I still want to help you become effective users. 2
Along those lines, I have been working on a book manuscript for a long time called Stuff Worth Knowing: And Not Much More. It is almost finished, and you might want to browse the chapter headings to see if it has some advice that will help you. I’ll make sure there is always a copy somewhere in the KU Blackboard page for this class. 2. From time to time, I will set aside time to tell you neat things about computing. That’s not something I will test you about. It just makes me happy. 3. Tips: Conduct (a) Keep your projects organized into separate folders. (b) Develop a good backup scheme. Today, I integrate backup with version management in Subversion, but mirroring is also a handy way to backup. (c) Never put blank spaces in file names or directory names. It creates trouble when interacting with other systems. (d) Become a “grown up” software user: join email lists like “r-help”, (http://www.r-project.org), semnet (http://www2.gsu.edu/~mkteer/semnet.html), etc. I suggest you get an account on Gmail for those lists (and learn how to use labels and filters on Gmail). (e) Learn to make professional looking tables and graphs. If you can’t make them, at least learn what they are supposed to look like! Students are expected to comply with University codes, policies, laws, and guidelines. Information on academic misconduct is available at the following address: http://www.studenthandbook.ku.edu/codes. shtml#Academic%20Misconduct. Schedule of Readings 1. Jan 17. Welcome, Howdy, Install your software and get going. You can use whatever kind of computer OS you like, whatever software you like. I can show you how to get some things done with L Y X and R that will be more difficult with MS Word, but the choice is up to you. My opinion is that technical work–especially research computing–is quite a bit different than pointing and clicking in Microsoft Office, but you will have to draw your own conclusions. (a) For Documents: Most of my documents are prepared with LYX, a “GUI editor” for L A TEX documents. LYX is available for all major OS (http://www.lyx.org). If you want to work on documents of type “*.lyx”, you need LYX (and the things it requires). If you are on Windows or Macintosh, I suggest you download the full installer “bundle”, rather than the small script that tries to separately download the individual pieces. (b) For Stats: R is easy and free to install on just about any operating system. R for Macintosh includes a pretty good built-in file editor. For Linux, there is no editor at all, and in Windows there is a poor editor. What to do? i. If you are a Windows user, I have system setup advice on the CRMDA web pages. http://web.ku.edu/~quant/cgi-bin/mw1/index.php?title=Windows:AdminTips Probably the easiest-to-manage R setup would include “RStudio” as the editor, but in the lab many Windows people also like Notepad++. I use Emacs with ESS (http://www.emacswiki. org/emacs/ESSWindowsAdvice). But you can choose. If I were you, I’d turn off “hide extensions of known file types in Windows.” ii. If you use Linux, install Emacs, install ESS. (c) For Stats: SAS exists and offers some fitting routines that are handy. 3
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