Using R at last

Finally, I have started using R. I sort of waited until I had something to start from scratch, and changing computers helped cos now I’m using SAS on the server and it sucks.

So far I’ve opened a database – nothing else can be done otherwise (thank you XL for putting commas as separator in the csv file when you specify you've used semi-colomn)! Made scatterplots, correlations, descriptive analyses, and now have moved to ordinal logistic regression. Have found how to check for collinearity. Need to understand the assumption checking for ordinal logistic still.

I’d like to find out if it’s possible to edit large series of commands and run them at once (as would be possible in SAS for example) instead of just running a few at at time, but otherwise I’m finding my way around.

I’ve done all the data editing in a csv file in XL, which is only allowed because I don’t have a gigantic database, but it’s quite handy.

Because I’m used to that, and because I’m fairly sure I won’t have everything in those drop down menu, I’m not using Rcommander.

This was a great help to get started, and this one remains a classic, whatever software you use. Good for R too.

Any one else has made the jump to R?