Continued work on practical R-Instat scripts for our library

[rdstern]

Our tutorials and other guides are usually in 2 forms.

1. There is a video
2. There is a practice guide

We are starting the process of getting a third form of these guides, namely as scripts. Here is tutorial 1 as a script;

Tutorial 1 r-script.zip

I like this new form to complement the two existing forms.

They should run block-by block easily and I suggest that is pretty quick and can add to our other tests of new versions. (It can't replace using the dialogs, because they might have changed from the saved script.)

I have also liked the role played by the Comments feature in each dialog. Usually it becomes a comment in the output and that should help, if we make the comments useful - i.e. don't always ignore it, so you get the default.

Now we find, similarly, it becomes a comment in the script, once you press To Script! Nice.

It is good to have well commented scripts in general. I suggest @rachelkg could improve on the comments in this draft, and work with @[email protected] to produce well commented scripts.

The scripts will also show weaknesses in our coding of the dialogs. I further suggest @beryl and @Rachel could query those weaknesses as issues, so the R-Instat code could be improved.

For example, in Tutorial 1 I suggest there is a better structure to the commands generated for the One Variable Summarise, compared to the One Variable Graph.

Then I suggest one of the developers could become the script "partner" working under @N-thony to get more consistency in the scripts for the different dialogs.

The example on graphs could be the first task. That can start any time, but is not to be merged for this week's update.

[berylwaswa]

Hello,
Below is the zipped file containing the r scripts for tutorial 1, tutorial 2 and the prepare menu practicals.

I have reviewed all three while testing R-Instat version .80 and they all worked fine.

R-Instat Scripts.zip

[berylwaswa]

Hello,
I have reviewed the computer skills needed for the R-Instat practical and created the r-script @rdstern. Please find it attached here.

computer_skills.zip