R for SAS and SPSS Users

• Main Author: Muenchen, Robert A. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2011.
• Series: Statistics and Computing,
• Subjects: Statistics.; Mathematical statistics.; Data mining.; Computer graphics.; Social sciences.; Psychology > Methodology.; Psychological measurement.; Statistics and Computing/Statistics Programs.; Probability and Statistics in Computer Science.; Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery.; Computer Graphics.; Psychological Methods/Evaluation.; Methodology of the Social Sciences.

R is a powerful and free software system for data analysis and graphics, with over 4,000 add-on packages available. This book introduces R using SAS and SPSS terms with which you are already familiar. It demonstrates which of the add-on packages are most like SAS and SPSS and compares them to R'...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• 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.