Courses I teach that could use some R luvin’

• CHEM 123: General Chemistry Laboratory I
• CHEM 126: General Chemistry Laboratory II
• INDS 100: Seeing with Data
• CHEM 341: Instrumental Analysis
• CHEM 122: Chemical Principles

In general chemistry lab Chem 123, we have an atrocious tutorial on using Excel for linear regression. The problem with this is that as the Excel interface has changed, the tutorial itself has gotten more and more convoluted. It’s a really simple, 4-point-calibration data set, and the only things the students need from it are the coefficients.

Later, in Chem 126, we use the