Re:When to use Excel, when to use R?
by Calamitous on Sunday April 18, 2010 @01:10PM
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Thank you, your response managed to be completely useless while being simultaneously condescending and making you look like an ass who is incapable of grasping a simple point; that I have no experience in statistics, but a great deal in programming, and don't know where to start.
Here, let me rephrase it monosyllabically so that you're capable of understanding the question:
Which "FM" would be good for me to "R"?
I assume you want to visualize the data but don't want to do any fancy statistics:
1. Tutorial
2. Language definition
3. Import/Export + sqldf or rodbc
4. Either Lattice[1] or ggplot2[2], and [3]
I'm glad I could be of help. :-)
Re:When to use Excel, when to use R?
by Calamitous on Sunday April 18, 2010 @09:58PM
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Thank you for your unexpectedly calm and helpful response to my bad-mood snarkotron. :)
"An Introduction to R" could be a good place to start along with the other manuals:
http://cran.r-project.org/manuals.html
(I think you can also access these through the help menu when interacting with R via the GUI.)
Also, to make nice looking plots, you might as well dive straight into Hadley Wickham's ggplot2 once you've gotten through the very basics: http://had.co.nz/ggplot2/
I'd say R is much closer to how a software developer is used to work than a spreadsheet. But I understand that many people who have no practice in software development would rather choose a spreadsheet in such a situation.