Hi, I am trying to learn some basic statistics stuff but I cannot find any elementary statistics exercises using R language. Using RKward would be even better... I need that in analysing sociological data, obtained through questionnairres - findind corelations between variables, relations between different types of data, etc. Could anyone recommend simple tutorials/exercises, available on www for me to work on? I realize it would be much simple to do this introductory stuff with spss, that everyone around me is using here in Lithuania, but I'd really like to learn to do it with R instead... -- Donatas G.
I don't know anything about RKward, but there are many, many tutorials, guides and other documents written for people learning R available online. Try the introduction to R at: http://www.r-project.org/ under manuals, or some of the many fine contributions at: http://cran.r-project.org/other-docs.html Sarah On 7/11/07, Donatas G. <dgvirtual at akl.lt> wrote:> Hi, I am trying to learn some basic statistics stuff but I cannot find any > elementary statistics exercises using R language. Using RKward would be even > better... > > I need that in analysing sociological data, obtained through questionnairres - > findind corelations between variables, relations between different types of > data, etc. > > Could anyone recommend simple tutorials/exercises, available on www for me to > work on? > > I realize it would be much simple to do this introductory stuff with spss, that > everyone around me is using here in Lithuania, but I'd really like to learn to > do it with R instead... > > -- > Donatas G. >-- Sarah Goslee http://www.functionaldiversity.org
Face the music and buy the book: _Introductory Statistics with R_ by Peter Dalgaard. It's perfect for what you need. It's clear and concise and will teach you statistics AND R as painlessly as such a thing can be. It's inexpensive and you can get it on Amazon.com and every other major bookseller, including the nearest university bookstore. Charles Annis, P.E. Charles.Annis at StatisticalEngineering.com phone: 561-352-9699 eFax: 614-455-3265 http://www.StatisticalEngineering.com -----Original Message----- From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch [mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Donatas G. Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 9:27 AM To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: [R] elementary statistics with R (rkward?) Hi, I am trying to learn some basic statistics stuff but I cannot find any elementary statistics exercises using R language. Using RKward would be even better... I need that in analysing sociological data, obtained through questionnairres - findind corelations between variables, relations between different types of data, etc. Could anyone recommend simple tutorials/exercises, available on www for me to work on? I realize it would be much simple to do this introductory stuff with spss, that everyone around me is using here in Lithuania, but I'd really like to learn to do it with R instead... -- Donatas G. ______________________________________________ R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch 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.
--- "Donatas G." <dgvirtual at akl.lt> wrote:> Hi, I am trying to learn some basic statistics stuff > but I cannot find any > elementary statistics exercises using R language. > Using RKward would be even > better... > > I need that in analysing sociological data, obtained > through questionnairres - > findind corelations between variables, relations > between different types of > data, etc. > > Could anyone recommend simple tutorials/exercises, > available on www for me to > work on? > > I realize it would be much simple to do this > introductory stuff with spss, that > everyone around me is using here in Lithuania, but > I'd really like to learn to > do it with R instead... > > -- > Donatas G.http://www.math.ilstu.edu/dhkim/Rstuff/Rtutor.html is not a bad place to start. John Verzani's notes on Simple R http://www.math.csi.cuny.edu/Statistics/R/simpleR/ may also help but his book is better. Peter Dalgarrd's book "Introductory Statistics with R" is also very good.
Dear Donatas, you might want to try my yown website, that is still under heavy construction (please use the tree-menu-structure): http://rensenieuwenhuis.nl/r-project/manual I'd like to hear what you think of it as a beginning R user. I want to mention though, that the books mentioned by other mailers are much better, complete and concise. The web though gives me the space to give many examples. yours sincerely, Rense Nieuwenhuis On Jul 11, 2007, at 15:27 , Donatas G. wrote:> Hi, I am trying to learn some basic statistics stuff but I cannot > find any > elementary statistics exercises using R language. Using RKward > would be even > better... > > I need that in analysing sociological data, obtained through > questionnairres - > findind corelations between variables, relations between different > types of > data, etc. > > Could anyone recommend simple tutorials/exercises, available on www > for me to > work on? > > I realize it would be much simple to do this introductory stuff > with spss, that > everyone around me is using here in Lithuania, but I'd really like > to learn to > do it with R instead... > > -- > Donatas G. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch 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. >
On 7/11/07, Donatas G. <dgvirtual at akl.lt> wrote:> Hi, I am trying to learn some basic statistics stuff but I cannot find any > elementary statistics exercises using R language. Using RKward would be even > better...[..]> I realize it would be much simple to do this introductory stuff with spss, that > everyone around me is using here in Lithuania, but I'd really like to learn to > do it with R instead...You seem to be looking for a practical GUI allowing you to learn R in a fairly easy way. Then, you're probably heading towards the R Commander [1] package. SciViews-R [2] is also worth looking at as a decent alternative to programs like SPSS. However, watch out for the incompatibility issues of SciViews with recent R _and_ Linux (the author would fix both problems somewhere towards September/October). If you want to check other GUIs, look at the link on available GUIs [3] (go directly to Overview); you might be interested by anything starting with Rcmdr and bellow. On a side note, I tried a recent version of RKward and to me the program felt, just as its name suggests, awkward. As for understanding the basics of R, you would be interested in checking this document on differences between SPSS or SAS and R [4]. This pdf reference [5] is also interesting for beginners (like myself, by the way). Hope this is of help. Regards, Liviu [1] http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox/Misc/Rcmdr/ [2] http://www.sciviews.org/SciViews-R/ [3] http://www.sciviews.org/_rgui/ [4] http://oit.utk.edu/scc/RforSAS&SPSSusers.pdf [5] http://www.unt.edu/rss/Teaching-with-R.pdf