R for Stata Users

• Main Authors: Muenchen, Robert A. (Author), Hilbe, Joseph (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2010.
• Series: Statistics and Computing,
• Subjects: Statistics.; Statistics and Computing/Statistics Programs.

Stata is the most flexible and extensible data analysis package available from a commercial vendor. R is a similarly flexible free and open source package for data analysis, with over 3,000 add-on packages available. This book shows you how to extend the power of Stata through the use of R. It intro...

Table of Contents:

• Installing and Updating R
• Running R
• Help and Documentation
• Programming Language Basics
• Data Acquisition
• Selecting Variables
• Selecting Observations
• Selecting Variables and Observations
• Data Management
• Enhancing Your Output
• Generating Data
• Managing Your Files and Workspace
• Graphics Overview
• Traditional Graphics
• Graphics with ggplot2
• Statistics
• Conclusion.