[BlindRUG] Introductions

[Géssica Michelle dos Santos Pereira]

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,
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.)
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> I think that's enough for now. Please reply with your own details if you
> like.
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> Cheers,
> Jonathan
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