{"id":8308,"date":"2018-06-20T10:43:05","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T10:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cel\/?p=8308"},"modified":"2018-06-20T20:35:46","modified_gmt":"2018-06-20T20:35:46","slug":"do-you-use-r-in-your-teaching-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/2018\/06\/20\/do-you-use-r-in-your-teaching-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you use R in your teaching practice?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.r-project.org\/\">More information on R is available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I started using R recently as an alternative to both SPSS and Excel.\u00a0 I am finding that the tasks for which I used SPSS can be carried out in R and the presentation of information is superior to both SPSS and Excel.<\/p>\n<p>If anyone is using R, please contact me as I am interested in working collaboratively with other colleagues at BU.<\/p>\n<p>Here are three examples of R&#8217;s graphical capability; a Likert chart, heatmap and direction chart.<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/2018\/06\/20\/do-you-use-r-in-your-teaching-practice\/r_likert\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8310\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8310\" src=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/files\/2018\/06\/r_likert.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"730\" srcset=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/files\/2018\/06\/r_likert.jpg 919w, https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/files\/2018\/06\/r_likert-288x300.jpg 288w, https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/files\/2018\/06\/r_likert-768x801.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/2018\/06\/20\/do-you-use-r-in-your-teaching-practice\/r_heatmap\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8311\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8311\" src=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/files\/2018\/06\/r_heatmap-1024x696.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"476\" srcset=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/files\/2018\/06\/r_heatmap-1024x696.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/files\/2018\/06\/r_heatmap-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/files\/2018\/06\/r_heatmap-768x522.jpg 768w, https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/files\/2018\/06\/r_heatmap.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/2018\/06\/20\/do-you-use-r-in-your-teaching-practice\/r_arrow\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8309\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8309\" src=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/files\/2018\/06\/r_arrow.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"602\" srcset=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/files\/2018\/06\/r_arrow.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/files\/2018\/06\/r_arrow-300x258.jpg 300w, https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/files\/2018\/06\/r_arrow-768x660.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics.\u00a0 More information on R is available here. I started using R recently as an alternative to both SPSS and Excel.\u00a0 I am finding that the tasks for which I used SPSS can be carried out in R and the presentation of information is superior&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/2018\/06\/20\/do-you-use-r-in-your-teaching-practice\/\">Read more &raquo;<span class=\"sr-only\"> about Do you use R in your teaching practice?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":486,"featured_media":8312,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[795],"tags":[914,276],"class_list":["post-8308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","tag-r","tag-statistics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/486"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8308"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8325,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8308\/revisions\/8325"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}