Kurdish language Wikihow

Here’s a resource for the University of Duhok. Wikihow is a website where people can post how-to manuals. It has a Kurdish language page.

Rather than have my manual translated into Kurdish, I hope that some people at University of Duhok will be able to post short articles describing individual resources on Wikihow. For example, here are some tasks that might require a bit of learning:

1. how to register for IVSL access
2. how to access JSTOR through IVSL
3. how to find a course syllabus at MIT Open Courseware
4. how to run a quick query at the World Bank WDI site
5. how to use Google Scholar
6. how to write footnotes/bibliographies with Zotero or Endnote
7. how to install R on your computer

I’m sure you can think of more.

I can’t write these in Kurdish, but I bet the students at UOD can.

Resources for Learning R in Iraq?

Please comment on this if you know of Arabic and Kurdish language resources for learning R.

I have been encouraging the economics faculty here to learn R for econometrics, both on grounds of quality and cost.

Here is a short list of resources that can help new users make the transition from SPSS if they choose.

1. Home page and downloads
   http://cran.r-project.org/
   
2. Instructions from UCLA
   http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/r/
   
3. Instructions for SPSS Users
   http://statmethods.net/
   
4. Graph examples
   http://addictedtor.free.fr/graphiques/
   
5. Econometrics with R (pdf)
   http://cran.r-project.org/doc/contrib/Farnsworth-EconometricsInR.pdf
   

These resources are all in English. Does anyone know where to find R manuals or tutorials in Arabic?

Update: the R project posts foreign-language tutorials in Chinese, French, German, Italian, and several other languages but no Arabic.