Hello, And thanks again for your answers, perspectives and more...
So, as I understood, R can (nearly) do anything. So, also because it's free, it is worth a try ;-). I then next will start with reading some introductory texts. And, wow, I'm quite 'overloaded', because there is so much stuff available, I don?t know where to start and get a foot in the door. I think I take one of the advices and will begin with the "Notes on the use of R for psychology experiments and questionnaires" text. The hint to the Rcmdr package was nice :-). That was nearly like SPSS base system. When at last to know, which package to use and for what kind of problem is another thing of course ... Still I have had problems with importing SPSS files. But I will read on it too. The factor analysis tool of Rcmdr I didn?t fully understand. So, there also will be much work to do. I also noticed that my stats abilities aren?t very profound. I?m so 'drilled' in doing 'standard stuff' and using more the SPSS output than knowing exactly what I have to do, that I will have to have a much closer look into a good book on stats ... well, the Hair et al. is a good book of course, but any recommendations are welcome :-). You all wrote about the graphics in R and those in Rcmdr I saw are to me mostly the same as in SPSS. Nevertheless, I even don?t know when and for what to use that whole bunch of graphics anyway ... still looking sometimes a bit envy on huge 3D-graphics of multivariate bell curves and stuff on book covers but can?t do anything with it. The data entries by ASCII files are strange to me, because I?m so used to work with a (the SPSS) spread sheet (mostly the good old typing in from paper & pencil questionnaires), that I don?t know how to handle that yet. Maybe using a SPSS- or at least Excel-like tool would be helpful for that. So, my next move will be reading the mentioned text on questionnaires and then some basic introduction on R, knowing then, how it principally works, what?s with the packages, how to manage the data and so on ... I also think, I have to do some homework on stats either ... Thanks again ... Frank -- +++ Jetzt WLAN-Router für alle DSL-Einsteiger und Wechsler +++ GMX DSL-Powertarife zudem 3 Monate gratis* http://www.gmx.net/dsl ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
