On Wed, 2006-11-08 at 15:55 -0500, Charilaos Skiadas wrote: > 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.
There are such discussions sprinkled over the last few years in the r-help archives that you might want to review. There is a lengthy one here: http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp02a/archive/35616.html and there are others, though the proper key words seem to be escaping me at the moment. Also, there are at least two articles in R News that you might find of interest: Marc Schwartz. The decision to use R. R News, 4(1):2-5, June 2004. Bill Pikounis and Andy Liaw. The value of R for preclinical statisticians. R News, 5(1):44-47, May 2005. There are others as well relative to how R is used in various domains, but these might be a good start and came to mind relatively easily... :-) HTH, Marc Schwartz ______________________________________________ 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.