Re: How good is R?


casioculture@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> John_Kane wrote:
> > casioculture@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > I'm investing my time in learning R, and also gnumeric. I guess
> > > gnumeric is somewhat trivial, and so far I found R easy to learn. I
> > > must say I'm spending most of my time relearning statistics itself. I
> > > made the decision to do so as they're open source. I decided not to
> > > learn SPSS and Excel, as I don't have SPSS and Excel is equally
> > > proprietary, though I'm inclined to think that by understanding R and
> > > being familiar with gnumeric, and the relevant statistics, then getting
> > > to know SPSS and Excel if I encounter them somewhere should be no major
> > > issue. Am I correct?
> >
> > I have not used SPSS in years and like you I am trying to teach myself
> > R but as I remember SPSS, it is nothing like R.
> >
>
> Hello, would you elaborate please? Am I making the correct choice in
> learning R and ignoring SPSS? If I master what I need of R would I miss
> out on anything significant in SPSS?

I don't know but I doubt it. With the proviso that any two software
packages intended to do X are going to similar but not identical things
I imagine that R and SPSS will both do most standard statistical
analyses and R may do a lot more.

What I meant is that the two approachs from what I remember of SPSS are
very different philisophically. I was using SPSS back when it was a
mainframe application and I seem to remember rigid rectangular data
matrices and rather cumbersome command sytax.

But remember I am just learning a little bit about R. I would suggest
having a look at the SPSS site and seeing if there is any kind of a
demo you might be able to download.
John Kane, Kingston ON Canada

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