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Topic: The R-project. Recommended App

The R-project is a very powerful statistics package. Perhaps a bit longer to get used to working with then SPSS, but in my experience just as (if not more) powerful.

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Re: The R-project. Recommended App

Second R.
R has been called the lingua franca of statistics. It is far more powerfull then e.g. spss. It is one of the best examples of open source beating the competition to a pulp (google "R new york times") . And there is plenty of help: stackoverflow, planet-R, revolution computing, #rstats on twitter etc.

The learning curve is a bit steep at first - but you'll soon get it. RcmdR is a good gui that gives you some point and click functionality.

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Re: The R-project. Recommended App

Another good GUI for R is rkward, and it is in the Ubuntu and Debian repositories.

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Re: The R-project. Recommended App

R is good.
Integration with GUI interface is suboptimal.

STATA works well.  Use to be inferior to R in terms of graphical data display, but has caught up now.
Use it for 2-3 hours a day and it has replaced R for me.

Both are vastly superior to SPSS.

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Re: The R-project. Recommended App

I love R. As I recently wrote in another thread, one of the huge problems with SPSS - which is a great illustration of the problem with commercial software in general (HEM HEM MS OFFICE) - is that in order to keep making people pay for it, they have to keep meddling with the product, reinventing (i.e., breaking) it and forcing people to learn new workflows.

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Re: The R-project. Recommended App

I have used SPSS, Stata and R on the university. R have no GUI, but it have the best language of them all and I almost never used the GUI tools in SPSS and Stata.

It is also amazing how you can integrate R code into LaTeX code to generate reports with neat graphs and tables from your data. (google sweave)

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Re: The R-project. Recommended App

And there is a reaaaally cool vim equivalent of ESS - it's here: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2628