On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, F.Kalder wrote: > I'm a very fresh newbie to R.
First piece of advice: read the posting guide before posting, and in particular use a meaningful subject line. > My first main question is, what the limitations of R are, what methods can R > NOT do, esp. compared to (a) SPSS and (b) SAS? R is a full-featured programming language, with no such limitations. > The second question is, how do you handle the data entry, data management > and data manipulation in R, to me it seems to be really complicated and > confusing?! Are there a kind of "helping tools"? There is documentation. For example, chapter 2 of MASS (see the FAQ or the posting guide) is devoted to this, and R ships with a `Data Import/Manual'. We don't know your background or skill level, but the FAQ points you to lots of documentation. > The third question: are there differences in linux and windows versions of > R? At the monemt I'm running R on a WinXP System. Is this ok or would a > Linux solutuon be the better way (for using R)? That's in the README of the Windows version. BTW, perhaps you should ask in a suitable forum what the limitations of Windows are relative to Linux since like any application R is limited by the OS it runs on. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
