On Tuesday 17 August 2004 09:20, Berton Gunter wrote: > A few comments: It has been decades since I used SPSS. At that time, to really work with it you edited a text file program that identified the data file and variable columns you wanted to work with. You assembled the flow of work commands after carefully going through the SPSS documentation. After you were ready, you ran the program and crossed your fingers. R IS complex, enough so that the useability at a basic level is readily achievable. What it lacks is simply the Stat 1 and Stat 101 packages that lead users from the very basics covered in introductory statistics texts into more profound analyses that some many R users are interested in. There are some texts, such as Peter Daalgard's Introductory Statistics with R, which is a very useful book. However, from a student's view point Chapter 1 focuses on R, everything from the R Language to R programming. The statistics chapters that follow almost seem to be used as an adjunct to teaching R rather than vice versa. For some social science students, a package that leads more gradually into R would probably be a big help learning learning the language while getting their feet wet in statistics.
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