Awesome format, wrong language.
EDIT to downvoters: with 'wrong' I don't mean bad, just a very niche language and it would have been nice to see such a format for a more popular or general purpose language
Learn R two minutes at a time
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Re: Learn R two minutes at a time
#12I've never been a fan of video tutorials myself. They always seem to move too slow, too fast, or some of both. Obviously videos do have some advantages over written tutorials, but if I had a choice, I'd pick written.
I didn't actually watch any of the R tutorials, so nothing that I said above is implying they are too fast/slow etc.
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#13http://www.screenr.com/7wp8 what... just happened
Just downvoted you because I visited the site, only say the short text (I dont use Flash nor do I browse with JS enabled) and it looked like spam so I downvoted. Sorry. Your post here was not too verbose so it mislead me.
I was very hesitant as well, but eventually determined it was a relevant link (a screencast with impressive video quality, but less impressive content).
GP's comment could certainly be improved.
Re: Learn R two minutes at a time
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#15Reminds me of the SlapChop video. (not a shameless plug) https://slapchop.com/
Why is this advertisement working on me? I'm usually resistant to ads but I really want to buy this.
I don't know. But how often do you "not have time to make breakfast", but have a peeled hard boiled egg, washed topped and tailed green onion and unpacked chopped ham ready?
Or you "hate making salad", but right there - peeled washed topped and tailed carrots, topped tailed and washed radishes, prepared celery. And no leaves.
The chopping and mixing bit is a fun bit of making salad, it's all the washing and preparing which takes the majority of the time.
Re: Learn R two minutes at a time
#16Listening to the voice in this one gives me the creeps: http://www.screenr.com/JJp8
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#17I might be interested in learning R if I knew what it was. Even the webpage doesn't explain what it is until you watch one of the videos.
I see this all the time on software-related websites. They launch into the technical details without even one sentence about what it is. I could give a whole bunch of examples here but I think everyone has experienced this.
Please include something like the following on the webpage and--if there's space--in the headline too:
"R (a programming language for statistics)"
I don't mean to single out the guy who did these great tutorials. I mean this for everybody. If your software product/OS/service/language is not Photoshop, Linux, Google, or Java, then write a couple of words right at the top to explain what it is please.
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#18Go through all this trouble but forget to make the font size bigger and the encoding quality such that it's actually legible? Baffling.
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#19I might be interested in learning R if I knew what it was. Even the webpage doesn't explain what it is until you watch one of the videos. I see this all the time on software-related websites. They launch into the technical details without even one sentence about what it is. I could give a whole bunch of examples here but I think everyone has experienced this. Please include something like the following on the webpage…
Unless you're doing in-depth statistical analysis, there's not really any reason to know anything about R. It isn't a useful general purpose language.
That is to say, while your suggestion is certainly valid and appreciable, the reason why there are rarely primers for content about R (specifically) is that the intended audience is primarily academic, where the audience is already familiar with the technology. if you take an applied statistics class, you'll learn how to use R there.
If you're not already in the club, there isn't much reason for you to join it unless you're leaving industry to do scientific-level statistical analysis.
This isn't me saying "Mind your own business!". I'm just giving the perspective of the writers for most R content.
Re: Learn R two minutes at a time
#20Awesome format, wrong language. EDIT to downvoters: with 'wrong' I don't mean bad, just a very niche language and it would have been nice to see such a format for a more popular or general purpose language
It could be the start of a trend. Personally, I would like to see the same thing for Lua.