Hans Fugal wrote: > 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. > Yeah, I found the docs and found the same thing about the internal help. R isn't as hard as I had read it was. I think it will work for whatever I need. My biggest problem now is figuring out exactly which tests to run. (I'm not a stats expert at all but I think my Boss wants me to be sometimes.)
-Dennis > 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. >> */ >> >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
