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Since the person in question is a programmer: RTFM I'd say R is much closer to how a software developer is used to work than a spreadsheet. But I understand th
by xtho 17y ago
Since the person in question is a programmer: RTFM
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.
- Calamitous 17y agoThank 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"?
- xtho 17y agoI 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. :-) [1] http://lmdvr.r-forge.r-project.org/figures/figures.html http://lmdvr.r-forge.r-project.org/figures/figures.html [2] http://had.co.nz/ggplot2/ http://had.co.nz/ggplot2/ [3] http://addictedtor.free.fr/graphiques/ http://addictedtor.free.fr/graphiques/
- Calamitous 17y agoThank you for your unexpectedly calm and helpful response to my bad-mood snarkotron. :)
- util 17y ago"An Introduction to R" could be a good place to start along with the other manuals: http://cran.r-project.org/manuals.html 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/ http://had.co.nz/ggplot2/