similar to: A Book for SAS, SPSS and R students

Dear Lists, I got the chance to review Bob Muenchen's book - R for SAS and SPSS users. While my detailed review is online at www.decisionstats.com, the book is a welcome addition in R Textbooks for beginners and an especially nice one for people who have experience in SAS and /or SPSS languages. AT 50 USD, it's reasonably priced for all geographies (;) , and quite handy as a refernce book

Hi, Bob Muenchen's book is now out on release. Its terrific for a step by step tutorial for doing stuff in R, even if all you know is SAS and SPSS. Check this out here http://rforsasandspssusers.com/ and at http://www.amazon.com/SAS-SPSS-Users-Statistics-Computing/dp/0387094172/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1217456813&sr=8-1 Regards, Ajay www.decisionstats.com

Often it is useful to keep a "codebook" to document the contents of a dataset. (By "dataset" I mean a rectangular structure such as a dataframe.) The codebook has as many rows as the dataset has columns (variables, fields). The columns (fields) of the codebook may include: ? variable name ? type (character, factor, integer, etc) ? variable label

Dear All, Slightly off -non technical topic ( but hey it is Friday) Following last week's interview with REvolution Computing which makes enterprise versions of R, here is another interview with the rapidly growing company Blue Reference CEOPaul van Eikeren at <http://www.decisionstats.com/2009/06/04/interview-inference-for-r/>

All I have been looking into the books on performing statistics in R, in particular I am interested in General Linear Mixed Models, for Randomized Complete Block Design Experiments The list I have come away with so far is: Mixed Effects Models in S and S-plus by Pinheiro (2002)

Hi List, This is a slightly non technical ,hence OT topic. Here is an Interview with Anne Milley of the SAS Institute. Anne Milley is director of product marketing, SAS Institute . In part 2 of the interview Anne talks of immigration in technology areas, open source networks ,how she misses coding ,and software as a service especially SAS Institute’s offering . She also reveals some preview on

Sent: Sunday, June 07, 2009 5:43 PM Subject: Question about R an SPSS Dears Sirs: Venables, Smith and R-Development Core Team I am reading about the functional features of R statistical software, because I want to compare these progarm with the basic module of SPSS software. I would like to know if the R version 2.9.0 application is capable of read and procces entry files

Hi everyone, I'm working on a multi-level model based on one of the "radon" example from Gelman & Hill's book ( http://www.amazon.com/Analysis-Regression-Multilevel-Hierarchical-Models/dp/052168689X/ref=pd_bbs_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1237069199&sr=8-1 ). I add an "region" indicator (has numeric values from 1 to 5) as the varying intercept in my model (I

I want to specify a 2-level mixed model using the lme function in order to test an a priori hypothesis about the between-group values of the slopes but don't know how to do this . Here is the problem. Consider first the case of a single group. The model is: Y_i= a +bX_i + error where I indexes the different values of X and Y in this group . The a priori hypothesis of the slope is: b=K.

Dear folks ? I have a large (26 gig) ASCII flat file in fixed-width format with about 10 million observations of roughly 400 variables. (It is 51 years of Current Population Survey micro data from IPUMS, roughly half the fields for each record). The file was produced by automatic process in response to a data request of mine. The file is not accompanied by a human-readable file giving the

Start the REvolution without me... http://danesecooper.blogs.com/divablog/2009/10/start-the-revolution-without-me.html *From Danese Cooper's Blog* Some of you may have become aware of REvolution Computing<http://revolution-computing.com/>, a commercial open source company organized around the R Language<http://www.r-project.org/>, when I joined in March

There are loads of resources for users of any other statistics package who are learning R. For example http://www.google.com/search?q="r+for+sas-users" The reverse isn't the case http://www.google.com/search?q="sas+for+r-users" Having heard rumors of how unelegant other statistics packages are, I don't see why any R-user would ever want to switch to anything else.

Dear List, I recently got the chance to interview Jon Peck of SPSS Inc, a pioneering technical statistician working since 1983 (when there were only two substantial statistical software companies as per him ;) (not anymore ;) and currently he is a Principal Software Engineer and Technical Advisor at SPSS. Jon talks of SPSS Inc's involvement with the Open Source, of scripting languages

SPSS seems to have changed its default datafile format, resulting in issues for read.spss(). In Windows this results in a warning, in Debian the import completely fails: Debian (R version 2.8.0 (2008-10-20) i486-pc-linux-gnu, foreign_0.8-29) > read.spss("/home/jeroen/samples/Tomato.sav") Error in iconv(names(rval), cp, "") : unsupported conversion from 'CP65001'

Hello, does anyone have experience with reading SPSS Version 15.0 files into R (version 2.4.1, WinXP)? I have long been sucessfully reading SPSS files with read.spss from the wonderful foreign package, but somehow after upgrading from SPSS14 to SPSS15 I seem to have problems. Trying a simple example, where test.sav is a SPSS 15.0 data file consisting of x1=c(1,2,3) and

I am using spss.get to import an SPSS database "Data.sav", created with SPSS 14 : df1 <- spss.get("C:/temp/Data.sav" , lowernames=TRUE, datevars = c("dateinte")) I am getting this warning. I get the same warning with read.spss. Warning message: C:/temp/Data.sav: Unrecognized record type 7, subtype 16 encountered in system file This is a stupid

<http://www.apress.com/book/bookDisplay.html?bID=10368> Came across this as a stub page browsing Amazon UK. This is good news! I''m surprised it hasn''t been discussed on the list before. Was Chad keeping it a secret? I hope it will have plenty of BDD theory. I''m still waiting for that magic book I can give to someone and say "here - read this, it

Hi, I would like to read a spss file in R. When i type read.spss("...") Comes the error: couldn't find function "read.spss" What shall i do? Margarida [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Hallo! I read SPSS data in the following way: library(Hmisc) library(foreign) dat<-spss.get("surv_abb.sav") In R1.9.1 I got the message: "Error in all(arg == choices) : Object "typeDate" not found" In R1.8.0 the same script works fine. Does anybody know a possibilty to read a SPSS file under R1.9.1? Thanks! Karl

Full_Name: Roger Newton Version: 2.8.1 OS: windows 2000 Submission from: (NULL) (80.176.228.157) I have an elderly version of SPSS (version 11) which I still use. R Version 2.6.1 would, and still will, read SPSS *.sav files produced by SPSS version 11. R version 2.8.1 which I installed two days ago (05/02/09) reports an error and shuts down when trying to read SPSS version 11 *.sav files using