I'm no R expert but I have been using it for basic stuff like std dev and mean and pretty graphs. It doesn't take all that much to learn how to use the basics; the hard part is knowing what's available. But if you're just doing specific analyses the internal help is great. (also available externally, e.g. in your web browser)
Go to http://cran.r-project.org/manuals.html and read the introduction and import/export docs. On Fri, 3 Mar 2006 at 15:59 -0700, Dennis wrote: > Erik R. Jensen wrote: > >>> I need to run some numbers through a few statistical processes and see > >>> if I can learn or find anything. Anyone know a good package that will > >>> run on Linux that can help? A good program for general statistical > >>> calculations would probably be sufficient. > >>> > > > > I thought this looked interesting: > > > > http://salstat.sourceforge.net/ > > > > > Well, I installed R and ran the demos. It looks powerful but also has a > big learning curve. (Not yet sure I want to invest the time.) > > Salstat looks promising but it is very up front about how much it isn't > done yet. They haven't updated in since 2003 though. > > I'm looking to plug some vectors of numbers in and be able to find > statistically significant portions via a few different test. Chi2, > student-T, anova stuff like that. > > I know OO.o and Excel have some of that ability but they just don't cut > it (OO.o is actually really really slow on my machine and I haven't > figured out why) > > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > -- Hans Fugal ; http://hans.fugal.net There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself. -- Johann Sebastian Bach
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