On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 8:34 PM, Chris Louden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My wife is a grad student at UCI. There are several things used but > primarily they use SPSS. The have issues with the data being moved > from MAC to PC and vice versa. Also they have issues with backwards > compatibility if the data was processed on v15 or v16. I think its > pretty crappy when software loses features with new versions or > doesn't have the same features in MAC/PC of the same version. > > In general though, what if any issues do you have with it? > I've used R in courses and on research projects with different platforms (win, mac, linux) and have not really run into any problems moving data sets between platforms, nor between different versions of the packages.
The other nice feature is that all the code is open to the student/researcher. With proprietary statistical (and gis) software many times the underlying implementation details of an algorithm/method are off limits to the user. This can lead to problems down the road when you need to revisit a study or try to replicate it. You don't have this black box effect with R. s. -- Sergio (Serge) Rey Professor and Chair Department of Geography San Diego State University http://geography.sdsu.edu/People/Faculty/rey.html -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
