Re: [R] Another newbie book recommandation question

2007-03-01 Thread Wensui Liu
for the size of your data file, I think R can handle it. of course, it also depends on your hardware. however, it might not be a good idea to do heavy data manipulation work in R. stata has very good routine for survey analysis. i am not sure if R is as good as stata in terms of survey analysis.

Re: [R] Another newbie book recommandation question

2007-03-01 Thread Charles Annis, P.E.
TED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Zembower, Kevin Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 10:07 AM To: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: [R] Another newbie book recommandation question I hope this question is sufficiently different from the other requests for book recommendations that it's no

[R] Another newbie book recommandation question

2007-03-01 Thread Zembower, Kevin
I hope this question is sufficiently different from the other requests for book recommendations that it's not repetitious. If not, I apologize in advance. I'm curious what standard reference books working statisticians, or biostatisticians, have within easy reach of their desk. I'm a computer syst

Re: [R] Another NEWBIE

2004-06-21 Thread Sven Hartenstein
Hi, "F.Kalder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The data entries by ASCII files are strange to me, because I?m so used > to work with a (the SPSS) spread sheet (mostly the good old typing in > from paper & pencil questionnaires), that I don?t know how to handle > that yet. Maybe using a SPSS- or a

RE: [R] Another NEWBIE

2004-06-20 Thread John Fox
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [R] Another NEWBIE > > 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

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

2004-06-20 Thread Frank E Harrell Jr
bably been too wordy, I've attempted to provide another perspective for you. Good luck. No, well said, Thanks, Frank Thanks, Charles ---------- Message: 7 Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 18:15:19 +0200 (MEST) From: "F.Kalder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [R] Anoth

Re: [R] Another NEWBIE

2004-06-20 Thread Charles and Kimberly Maner
-- Message: 7 Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 18:15:19 +0200 (MEST) From: "F.Kalder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [R] Another NEWBIE To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hi, Thank you all who an

Re: [R] Another NEWBIE

2004-06-19 Thread Frank E Harrell Jr
F.Kalder wrote: 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 b

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

Re: [R] Another NEWBIE

2004-06-18 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, F.Kalder wrote: > I'm a very fresh newbie to R. First piece of advice: read the posting guide before posting, and in particular use a meaningful subject line. > My first main question is, what the limitations of R are, what methods can R > NOT do, esp. compared to (a) SPSS

Re: [R] Another NEWBIE

2004-06-18 Thread Spencer Graves
SPSS and SAS are data analysis packages with some scripting capabilities. The S language is an object oriented programming language for statistics. If you want to analyze data using traditional techniques, use SPSS or SAS or Statistica or Excel or you-name-it. If you need to invent new

[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