Linux tutorial?

[David Curry]

Marc Schwartz wrote:

>On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 17:56 -0800, Nifty Hat Mitch wrote:
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>>On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 06:52:55PM -0800, Globe Trotter wrote:
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>>>I am a statistics instructor who is trying to wean the students out of the
>>>dreadful ways of Windoze. Does anyone know of a tutorial covering just the
>>>basic set of tools to get started? Omline would be great, of course!
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>>If you are a statistics instructor you should be able to focus on
>>statistics and math.  All the students need is login, simple editor
>>(nano, vim), simple file commands, math tools and logout.  I have seen
>>university classes where instructions for notepad file uploads were
>>provided.
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>>To get started with math tools, look into ...
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>>  octave - A high-level interactive language for numerical computations.
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>>And 'calc' a notch above and beyond bc/dc.
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>>  http://www.isthe.com/chongo/tech/comp/calc/index.html
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>>And 'pscp'.
>>  http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/
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>>And 'bc'/'dc'.
>>  These are standsard unix/Linux tools bc and dc are an arbitrary
>>  precision calculator pair one is rpn the other not.  These are good
>>  tools to explore the dynamics of numbers and errors that are so
>>  common in some statistical numeric computation.
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>>And gnumeric
>>  a GNOME spreadsheet application.
>>  Lots of built in statistics functions....
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>>And, more but this is a good start.
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>Don't forget R:
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>http://www.r-project.org/
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>which is available for multiple platforms.
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>HTH,
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>Marc Schwartz
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There is also a application specific multi-platform package named gretl, 
short for GNU Regression, Econometrics, and Time Series Library 
available from

http://gretl.sourceforge.net/