Linux tutorial?

[Marc Schwartz]

On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 17:56 -0800, Nifty Hat Mitch wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 06:52:55PM -0800, Globe Trotter wrote:
> > 
> > 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!
> 
> 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.
> 
> To get started with math tools, look into ...
> 
>   octave - A high-level interactive language for numerical computations.
> 
> And 'calc' a notch above and beyond bc/dc.
> 
>   http://www.isthe.com/chongo/tech/comp/calc/index.html
> 
> And 'pscp'.
>   http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/
> 
> 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.
> 
> And gnumeric
>   a GNOME spreadsheet application.
>   Lots of built in statistics functions....
> 
> And, more but this is a good start.


Don't forget R:

http://www.r-project.org/

which is available for multiple platforms.

HTH,

Marc Schwartz