Re: [R] recommended combo of apps for new user?

2007-08-20 Thread John Kane
--- hadley wickham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/18/07, John Kane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm just starting to get a grasp on how R works so don't take my words too seriously but have a look at http://addictedtor.free.fr/graphiques/ for some idea of what R can do for publication

[R] recommended combo of apps for new user?

2007-08-19 Thread Antony Unwin
In fact a lot of my work involves exploratory and descriptive analyses of rather large and messy databases from ecological monitoring, rather than statistical tests per se. For the exploratory part of your work you should consider the iPlots package, which provides interactive graphics

Re: [R] recommended combo of apps for new user?

2007-08-19 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Regarding RODBC vs. DBI-based packages (RSQLite, RMySQL, etc.) its my perception, possibly mistaken, that apart from any consideration of the R packages themselves, ODBC (which originated in the Windows world) is more widely used on Windows than UNIX. Also ODBC has the problem that one must

Re: [R] recommended combo of apps for new user?

2007-08-19 Thread Martin Brown
Thanks so much for the many responses on and off this email list! I think it's helped me reach a resolution. I'm going to use R on my current small project for something relatively self-contained, such as some final tests and graphics. I figure this will help me learn some basics about

Re: [R] recommended combo of apps for new user?

2007-08-19 Thread Martin Brown
Thanks so much for the many responses on and off this email list! I think it's helped me reach a resolution. I'm going to use R on my current small project for something relatively self-contained, such as some final tests and graphics. I figure this will help me learn some basics about

Re: [R] recommended combo of apps for new user?

2007-08-19 Thread hadley wickham
On 8/18/07, John Kane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm just starting to get a grasp on how R works so don't take my words too seriously but have a look at http://addictedtor.free.fr/graphiques/ for some idea of what R can do for publication quality graphics. It is always possible that you might

[R] recommended combo of apps for new user?

2007-08-18 Thread Martin Brown
Hi there, I would like some advice, not so much about how to use R, but about software that I need to complement R. I've rooted around in the FAQ's and done a few searches on this mailing list but haven't quite found the perspective I need. I am an experienced data analyst in my field (forest

Re: [R] recommended combo of apps for new user?

2007-08-18 Thread Martin Brown
[i sent this message earlier but apparently should have sent it plain text, as follows..] Hi there, I would like some advice, not so much about how to use R, but about software that I need to complement R. I've rooted around in the FAQ's and done a few searches on this mailing list but haven't

Re: [R] recommended combo of apps for new user?

2007-08-18 Thread Duncan Murdoch
Martin Brown wrote: [i sent this message earlier but apparently should have sent it plain text, as follows..] Hi there, I would like some advice, not so much about how to use R, but about software that I need to complement R. I've rooted around in the FAQ's and done a few searches on this

Re: [R] recommended combo of apps for new user?

2007-08-18 Thread John Kane
I'm just starting to get a grasp on how R works so don't take my words too seriously but have a look at http://addictedtor.free.fr/graphiques/ for some idea of what R can do for publication quality graphics. It is always possible that you might need another graphics package as well but I think

Re: [R] recommended combo of apps for new user?

2007-08-18 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On 8/18/07, Martin Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, I would like some advice, not so much about how to use R, but about software that I need to complement R. I've rooted around in the FAQ's and done a few searches on this mailing list but haven't quite found the perspective I need.

Re: [R] recommended combo of apps for new user?

2007-08-18 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Some additional comments on the DBMS front. (a) SPSS is not a DBMS, so it is not clear that you need this. But if you do and are storing valuable data in a DBMS a lot of further questions come into play, like how you are going to do backups. I'd say PostgreSQL was really only for