I started using statistical software with the commercial product S+
when I obtained a new HP735 workstation. We kept the S+ license
going for a number of years until I heard about R. It was an easy
transition and because I have been proficient in fortran and perl,
the scripting came naturally--except for some syntax
similarities/differences between perl and R interacting with a
natural tendency towards dyslexia.
I especially like that I can slice and dice the data to ferret out
relationships e.g., concentration by hour of day, by month, by wind
speed, by wind direction--love those boxplots.
I also find that even the default settings produce some pretty
attractive plots that are useable in many settings--I've also
produced some pretty awful ones.
And the price always reminds me that I need to find every way
possible to contribute to the overall good--I've forgotten too much
of my fortran and C programming skills to contribute directly to
the R Project.
Clint
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On Thu, 25 Feb 2010, Ralf B wrote:
My biggest blocker was my misconception that R is extremely difficult
to start with. It is powerful and one can do very complicated things (
that consequently turn things complicated) but it comes with very
nice defaults and one can produce great results with standard tasks in
very little time - especially if one has done programming and/or
scripting before.
I pushed it away for too long that way. I wish I would have used it
years ago and avoided SPSS altogether - must have wasted 100s of hours
doing repetitive tasks by click and partial scripts in SPSS. Not to
mention a horrible license policy and a visualization unit that is
simply embarrassing for a product that is in its 18th or 19th version.
Ralf
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 1:11 PM, Tal Galili <tal.gal...@gmail.com> wrote:
My biggest stumbling blocks to getting up and running with R was whenever I
was lazy and impatient.
The more you love R, the more it loves you back.
Tal
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On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 7:31 PM, Patrick Burns <pbu...@pburns.seanet.com>wrote:
* What were your biggest misconceptions or
stumbling blocks to getting up and running
with R?
* What documents helped you the most in this
initial phase?
I especially want to hear from people who are
lazy and impatient.
Feel free to write to me off-list. Definitely
write off-list if you are just confirming what
has been said on-list.
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