I agree that what I said was one sided. I know that the spss GPL and ggplot2 are based on the same grammar. I have the impression that ggplot2 is much easier to use. But I must agree that I stopped trying to understand gpl after discovering ggplot2. Frans
2013/4/2 J. R. M. Hosking <jrmhosk...@gmail.com> > On 2013-04-02 04:28, Frans Marcelissen wrote: > >> Hi, >> I have a problem combining R and SPSS (21). I do not know whether the >> solution is in R or in spss, so I will post both in the R group and in the >> SPSS group. >> >> I use the R plugin in spss(21). The most important reason to use this >> plugin is ggplot2 (spss does not have a decent graphical system). This >> > > Huh? IBM SPSS Statistics has a Graphics Production Language that its > reference guide describes as "a concise and flexible language based on the > grammar described in [Leland Wilkinson's book] *The Grammar of Graphics*". > ggplot2 is "an implementation of the Grammar of Graphics". It seems > likely that whatever you were hoping to achieve with ggplot2 can also be > done natively in SPSS. > > > J. R. M. Hosking > > > > > plugin requires R 14.0 (14.2 or 15 does not work). >> When I install R it gives an warning: >> >>> library(ggplot2) >>> >> Warning message: >> package ggplot2 was built under R version 2.14.2 >> >> After that, when i use gplot2: >> >>> ggplot()+geom_bar(aes(x=**factor(1),y=10)) >>> >> Error in initFields(scales = scales) : >> could not find function "initRefFields" >> >> I found on internet that the solution for this problem is upgrading to a >> newer version of R (and indeed, on 2.15 or 3.0 ggplot2 works fine). spss >> needs 2.14.0, however. >> Does anyone know a solution? >> Thanks >> Frans >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> >> >> >> > ______________________________**________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/**listinfo/r-help<https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help> > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/** > posting-guide.html <http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html> > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- ------------------- dr F.H.G. (Frans) Marcelissen DigiPsy (www.DigiPsy.nl <http://www.digipsy.nl/>) Pomperschans 26 5595 AV Leende tel: 040 2065030/06 2325 06 53 skype adres: frans.marcelissen email: frans.marcelis...@digipsy.nl [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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