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    Thanks, both of you, for the helpful links.  It's good to get things
    from a few different perspectives.  Tim Smith's pages were a quick,
    fun read.  There's a lot there that I wish I'd known when I was
    struggling through a couple R scripts I wrote.  I still feel like
    I've barely scratched the surface, as did Tim's article.  Lots of
    other odd inconsistencies in R, like row.names vs colnames and stuff
    like that.  And that's before you even start learning about the
    oodles of stats libraries available and how to use them, including
    their often inconsistent requirements/specs for arguments &amp;
    return values.<br>
    <br>
    Gilles<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 05/10/2015 9:23 AM, Sean Walberg
      wrote:<br>
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      <div dir="ltr">It's not all about you, Adam. In the same manner
        with which you posted some R advice that worked for you, I
        posted some that worked for me.
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        <div>Sean</div>
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        <div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 9:44 AM, Adam
          Thompson <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a moz-do-not-send="true"
              href="mailto:athompso@athompso.net" target="_blank">athompso@athompso.net</a>&gt;</span>
          wrote:<br>
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            <div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> That only works for a
              subset of users: those who learn through
              watching/listening to courses <i>and</i> can wait 4 weeks
              or more before they need to actually accomplish something.<br>
              In the end, I managed to get the smoothed 3D graph I
              needed in under 2 days.  But that was 2 days of solid blue
              air around me.<br>
              <br>
              (BTW: the course you referred to also has multiple
              prerequisites, this looks like the starting point: <a
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                href="https://www.coursera.org/course/datascitoolbox"
                target="_blank"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.coursera.org/course/datascitoolbox">https://www.coursera.org/course/datascitoolbox</a></a>.)<span
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                  -Adam</font></span><span class=""><br>
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                <div>On 15-10-05 05:16 AM, Sean Walberg wrote:<br>
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                <blockquote type="cite">There are several good courses
                  on coursera. No only do you learn R, you learn some
                  applications. There is one on regression models
                  starting today!
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                  <div>Sean<br>
                    <br>
                    On Sunday, 4 October 2015, Adam Thompson &lt;<a
                      moz-do-not-send="true"
                      href="mailto:athompso@athompso.net"
                      target="_blank"><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:athompso@athompso.net">athompso@athompso.net</a></a>&gt;
                    wrote:<br>
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                        moz-do-not-send="true"
                        href="http://arrgh.tim-smith.us" target="_blank"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://arrgh.tim-smith.us">http://arrgh.tim-smith.us</a></a>/<br>
                      <br>
                      I wish I had known of this resource the last time
                      I tried to use R for something. Maybe it will help
                      someone else.<br>
                      -Adam<br>
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    <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- 
Gilles R. Detillieux              E-mail: <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:grdetil@scrc.umanitoba.ca">&lt;grdetil@scrc.umanitoba.ca&gt;</a>
Spinal Cord Research Centre       WWW:    <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/">http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/</a>
Dept. of Physiology and Pathophysiology, Faculty of Health Sciences,
Univ. of Manitoba  Winnipeg, MB  R3E 0J9  (Canada)
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