January 11: There will be no class on Friday, January 15. (I will be out of town for a conference.) Please use this time to familiarize yourself with the software package "R". A walkthrough beginner tutorial will be posted here before Friday. R is installed on the machines in several labs around campus including ECCR 252 (and adjoining labs) and ECCR 143 (a BuffOne card access lab). If you have access to the Newton Lab (for example, APPM graduate students), R is installed on all machines there as well. R is available for free to anyone for home use and may be downloaded from www.r-project.org.
I am counting on you to use this time of the cancelled class to familiarize yourself with some basic R commands but most importantly to figure out how you will access the software. If you can't get started with R, I will be more than happy to go to a lab with you to help when classes resume in the second week, but I do not want to be dealing with start-up issues by the time the first R assignment comes around!