Introduction to R Trix

R Trix provides valuable resources in the form of interactive applications, simulation models and educative examples that can be utilized in the classroom to better engage students in statistics and probability. All computations that we describe are done with the statistical package R.

R is not Tricky!

R Trix uses the power of the open source statistical programming environment R which is already widely used in industry and in universities. It is our belief that R is useful enough, important enough and easy enough to use, that it should be the mathematical and statistical software of choice in better school systems everywhere.

Because of the way R has been developed (as a research tool for academic statisticians), it requires some effort to learn. The R Trix apps that we have developed are designed to give teachers and students access to the power of R with ease. For those that want to learn R, our pages provide information and resources to make this task easier.

Who we are

We are statistics faculty members and students at the University of British Columbia and University of Toronto who have a passion for teaching numeracy and statistics. We believe that simulation and graphics are the best gateway to learning probability and statistics concepts.