R for SAS and SPSS Users

Introduction. The five main parts of SAS and SPSS.- Programming conventions.- Typographic conventions.- Installing & updating R.- Running R.- Help and documentation.- Programming language basics.- Data Acquisition.- Selecting Variables - Var, Variables=.- Selecting observations - where, if select if, filter.- Selecting both variables and observations.- Converting data structures.- Data management.- Recoding variables. Value labels or formats (& measurement level).- Variable labels.- Generating data.- How R stores data.- Managing your files and workspace.- Graphics overview.- Traditional graphics.- The ggplot2 package.- Statistics.- Summary.- Conclusion.- Appendix A.- Appendix B.- Appendix C.- Bibliography.