As a addendum to all this, this is one of the responses I got from one of my colleagues:
"The problem with R is that our students in many social science fields, are expected to know SPSS when they go to graduate school. Not having a background in SPSS would put these students at a disadvantage." Is this really the case? Does anyone have any such statistics? 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.