My biggest blocker was my misconception that R is extremely difficult to start with. It is powerful and one can do very complicated things ( that consequently turn things complicated) but it comes with very nice defaults and one can produce great results with standard tasks in very little time - especially if one has done programming and/or scripting before.
I pushed it away for too long that way. I wish I would have used it years ago and avoided SPSS altogether - must have wasted 100s of hours doing repetitive tasks by click and partial scripts in SPSS. Not to mention a horrible license policy and a visualization unit that is simply embarrassing for a product that is in its 18th or 19th version. Ralf On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 1:11 PM, Tal Galili <tal.gal...@gmail.com> wrote: > My biggest stumbling blocks to getting up and running with R was whenever I > was lazy and impatient. > > The more you love R, the more it loves you back. > > Tal > > > > > ----------------Contact > Details:------------------------------------------------------- > Contact me: tal.gal...@gmail.com | 972-52-7275845 > Read me: www.talgalili.com (Hebrew) | www.biostatistics.co.il (Hebrew) | > www.r-statistics.com (English) > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 7:31 PM, Patrick Burns > <pbu...@pburns.seanet.com>wrote: > >> * What were your biggest misconceptions or >> stumbling blocks to getting up and running >> with R? >> >> * What documents helped you the most in this >> initial phase? >> >> I especially want to hear from people who are >> lazy and impatient. >> >> Feel free to write to me off-list. Definitely >> write off-list if you are just confirming what >> has been said on-list. >> >> -- >> Patrick Burns >> pbu...@pburns.seanet.com >> http://www.burns-stat.com >> (home of 'The R Inferno' and 'A Guide for the Unwilling S User') >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide >> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >> > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.