Re: [dinosaur] Transmitting Science course on R Shiny, February 18-22, Barcelona

[Ruben Safir <ruben@mrbrklyn.com>]

On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 04:14:24PM -0700, David Äernà wrote:
> > if you use R to a decent extent you would be up to understanding
> > the question.  R already has a bunch of built in facilities and to
> > churn data, and to formulate graphics
> 
> No way, really? I can only imagine how many years of experience it
> takes to come up with a profound insight like this. It's not like R is
> being taught to undergrads everywhere precisely for that reason.
> 
> > If you had some 40 years of coding experience, you would understand
> > how the latest hottest modules come and go over time, and how
> > essential it is to understand R's core functionality (in this case) and
> > syntax.
> 
> ... which has absolutely nothing to do with anything, especially since
> no one is forcing you to fly to Barcelona and take a course on one of
> those latest hottest modules you hold in such contempt. But hey, nice
> job patting yourself on the back!
> 

FWIW, it is being offered on line, and it is in English.  And it is only
peripherly related on the topic of this list, if at all.

The application itself has comercial license with pricing.  The lecturer
seems to be from North Carolina and not a paleontologist.  She is
actually a Marine Biologist and has a PhD Ecological Bioinfomatics. 

I actually didn't realize it came from this list in the original
post I sent.  I get a few dozen emails like this a day and they all end
up on a spam folder most of which are offers for Medical CEs, etc.

I  am not sure how to confront your hostility, but these are, fwiw, the
facts and the personal confrontation I'm going to ignore.