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We are teaching stuff like mathematics, statistics, statistical programming and so on, but we cannot teach each possible software product - we also don't teach how to analyze each possible dataset that might find its way to the statistician's desk, we just use the iris data and Anscombe's quartet. ;-)
-- Uwe Ligges (in a thread about whether universities have to teach students how to use commercial software)
R-help (April 2005) #Rstats