The index alone took over 80 hours to compile because it is important for people to be able to look up things like “length” as both a SAS statement and as an R function. For example, the table of contents has an entry for “Value Labels or Formats” even though R uses neither of those terms as SPSS and SAS do, respectively. SAS and SPSS concepts are used in the body of the book as well as the table of contents, the index and even the glossary. The main point is that having R taught to you using terms you already know will make R much easier to learn. What are the salient points in this book ? I said it might be 150 pages when I wrote out the prose to replace all the comments. An editor from Springer emailed me to ask if I could make it a book. That translates into about 300 users, paging back and forth through the document. When a person ran the sections of the R programs and read all the comments, he or she would learn how R worked.Ī web page counter on that document showed it was getting about 10,000 hits a month.
A person could see how they differed, topic by topic. I provided 27 example programs, each done in SAS, SPSS and R. It was only 80 pages and much of its explanation was in the form of extensive R program comments. I finally posted them on the Internet as the first version of R for SAS and SPSS Users. I started keeping notes on these differences for myself initially.
I did have a lot to “unlearn” but once I figured a certain step out, I could see that explaining it to another SAS or SPSS user would be relatively easy. It was incredibly hard work, most of which was caused by my expectations of how I thought it ought to work. In it he said little about R, other than he had “enormous difficulties” learning it that he had especially found the documentation lacking. Pat’s article was a rejoinder to “Strategically using General Purpose Statistics Packages: A Look at Stata, SAS and SPSS” by Michael Mitchell, then the manager of statistical consulting at UCLA (it’s at that same site). That article pointed out the many advantages of R and in it Burns claimed that knowing a standard statistics package interfered with learning R. Had I tried it? What did I think? Wasn’t it amazing? I searched around for a review and found an article by Patrick Burns, “R Relative to Statistics Packages” which is posted on the UCLA site ( ). What made you write the R For SAS and SPSS users?Ī few years ago, all my colleagues seemed to be suddenly talking about R. In an exclusive interview Bob agreed to answer some questions on the book, and on students planning to enter science careers. Note- Robert Muenchen (pronounced Min’-chen) is the author of the famous R for SAS and SPSS users, and his forthcoming book is an extensive tutorial on anyone wanting to learn either SAS,SPSS,or R or even to migrate from one platform to another. Buying it can potentially strengthen your skills and resume in SAS as well as R, and SPSS as well. It is an analytics textbook and can be used as a reference for R,SPSS,SAS as well as any object oriented programming language. R-bloggers - blog aggregator with statistics articles generally done with R software.Update -The R for SAS and SPSS Users book is 1 week away. Kaggle Self posts with throwaway accounts will be deleted by AutoModerator
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