[BlindRUG] Introductions

[Ensor, Tyler]

Hi everyone,
My name is Tyler Ensor and I'm a master's student in cognitive
psychology at Memorial University in St. John's Newfoundland, Canada.
My goal is to get a PhD in cognitive science and, hopefully,
eventually get a job in academia. To date, I have essentially no
experience with R; in psychology, SPSS is the preferred statistical
software. However, SPSS is not very accessible and, in doing my own
research, I hope to use R instead.
Tyler

On 2/5/15, Géssica Michelle dos Santos Pereira <blindrug at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I work at a research institute in Brazil and I'm taking my master
> degree in Electrical Engineering.
> Although I haven't got absolutely any experience in R, I hope to get
> some material here to improve my knowledge about Statistics.
> Well, it isn't the ideal, but it's a beginning.
>
> Best,
>
> Gessica
>
> 2015-02-05 6:22 GMT-02:00, Godfrey, Jonathan via BlindRUG
> <blindrug at nfbnet.org>:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> Thank you all for joining the BlindRUG. I look forward to getting to know
>> how each of you is using R so that I can learn from you and improve my
>> use
>> of R. I certainly don't profess to know everything about R and the many
>> ways
>> anyone will use it, but I do think I've got a pretty good handle on how
>> blind users can use it.
>>
>> I'd like those of you who feel inclined to let the rest of us know who
>> you
>> are and how much you use R, or want to use R in the future. As list
>> moderator I can see who is on the list. I know some list members aren't
>> blind but do have an interest in how blind users will fare. Welcome to
>> you
>> too. Finally before I share my R history, please do feel free to let
>> anyone
>> else you know that is using R know about the BlindRUG. The more the
>> merrier.
>>
>>
>> I work at Massey University in New Zealand as a Senior Lecturer in
>> Statistics. To my knowledge, there is only one other blind lecturer in
>> statistics (Theodor Loots from Pretoria) and I think it's time this
>> changed.
>> There are a few other blind lecturers that teach statistical topics
>> within
>> their chosen area of application as well of course.
>>
>> I've been using R for well over eight years now. I migrated to R when the
>> licence for my SPlus software ran out and other software options were
>> letting me down. I still used Minitab for teaching until 2009. The only
>> time
>> I have opened other statistical software since then is to test its
>> usefulness or to run a program provided by a statistical consulting
>> client
>> or research collaborator.
>>
>> R is used in all courses I teach beyond first year including a few where
>> I
>> have ended up being responsible for converting all course material to
>> incorporate R code and output. In most instances, I have used Sweave so I
>> didn't need to copy and paste output etc. into my LaTeX files. I have
>> been
>> using Rmarkdown for the same purposes since mid-2014. I hope we'll talk
>> about these work practices soon. (This is the way most of the material on
>> the R-Resources pages is created.)
>>
>> I am maintainer of four packages on CRAN, including the BrailleR package
>> which is the most relevant to this audience. I'll want to introduce that
>> to
>> you very soon too. This package has one major purpose - make using R even
>> easier (efficiency and effectiveness) for blind users.
>>
>> I run R under Windows, but also have a Cygwin installation for testing
>> the
>> performance of a couple of little tricks for running scripts on Linux
>> servers used by one of my major clients.
>>
>> I think that's enough for now. Please reply with your own details if you
>> like.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Jonathan
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
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>
> Look for help using R commands by reading the accessible e-book "Let's Use R
> Now" compiled by Jonathan Godfrey at:
> http://R-Resources.massey.ac.nz/lurn/front.html
>