Re: [R] Another NEWBIE

2004-06-20 Thread F.Kalder
Hello, And thanks again for your answers, perspectives and more... So, as I understood, R can (nearly) do anything. So, also because it's free, it is worth a try ;-). I then next will start with reading some introductory texts. And, wow, I'm quite 'overloaded', because there is so much stuff ava

Re: [R] Another NEWBIE

2004-06-19 Thread F.Kalder
Hi, Thank you all who anwered me. I think, I mainly thought to understand the difference between SPSS /SAS and R, but didn't really get the point (what explains the question, wich metods R can't do). Maybe, because I don't have much experience with programming (near to none). My background in st

[R] Another NEWBIE

2004-06-18 Thread F.Kalder
Hi, I'm a very fresh newbie to R. 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? 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 complic