Hello, new to the list, first message. This question perhaps might be more appropriate to R-sig-teaching, and I'd be happy to take it there if this is not the right place for it.
I am teaching applied statistics at a small liberal arts college with limited resources, and we are currently using SPSS for our courses. Mainly the reason for this, as I understand it, is that this is what is used "out in the real world", or at least this is our perception of it. I have only used R for my own stuff for about six months, and my training is not in statistics, so I am not very aware of what it can do in other disciplines, especially Sociology and Psychology. I would like to make a case to the other departments here for using R instead, so I was hoping that there might be some resources out there that talk about the extend in which R is being used outside of academia, or in general any other resources that talk about R as a practical alternative to the other non-free statistical packages. Perhaps some statistics, or particular examples of use? Any links would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for any thoughts/input into this. Charilaos Skiadas Department of Mathematics Hanover College P.O.Box 108 Hanover, IN 47243 ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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.