Check http://cran.r-project.org/doc/FAQ/R-FAQ.html#R-and-S and following links. R has a 95% overlap with S and S+, and those two are popular enough that statistics books target them (e.g., Venables and Ripley).
> > I am teaching applied statistics at a small liberal arts college with > limited resources, and we are currently using SPSS for our courses. > Mainly the reason for this, as I understand it, is that this is what > is used "out in the real world", or at least this is our perception > of it. I have only used R for my own stuff for about six months, and > my training is not in statistics, so I am not very aware of what it > can do in other disciplines, especially Sociology and Psychology. I > would like to make a case to the other departments here for using R > instead, so I was hoping that there might be some resources out there > that talk about the extend in which R is being used outside of > academia, or in general any other resources that talk about R as a > practical alternative to the other non-free statistical packages. > Perhaps some statistics, or particular examples of use? Any links > would be greatly appreciated. -- I can answer any question. "I don't know" is an answer. "I don't know yet" is a better answer. ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
