[R] R like SPSS

[Uwe Ligges]

Gerhard Prade wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> (Sorry, my bad english)
> i am searching a alternativ for spss that i can use with linux. I 
> studied sociology in germany and work sometimes for some hours in the 
> marketresearch. There they use statistics like anova and crosstabs. I 
> see that r can make anova or regressions but the most work in the 
> marketresearch is making crosstabs. These companys use something like 
> spss tables or gess to make tables for the customers. I read that r can 
> make with latex tables with xtabs or ftable and so on. But i dont 
> understand the use of all that. My question is: Is R a good alternativ 
> to make tables?
> The goal is to make something like that:
> 
> _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ 
> 
> 
> Question 1.1
> What is your Age?
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
> 
>                                            PC-Users                    
>        Linux User                    Windows User
>                                        yes               |     no        
> ||   yes            no                    yes            no
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
> 
> 0-10 years                       4    2%         |     1 1%     ||     
> xx          and so on
>                                                            |           
>       ||
> 11-20 years                     8    4%         |     2    2%  ||   
> xx            and so on
>                                                            |           
>       ||
> 21-30 years                    8    4%          |                  ||   
> xx                                                             
> |                 ||   31 years an older            180    90%    
> |                   ||    xx
>                                                            |           
>       ||
> not answerd                    0        0%      |                   ||
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
> 
> 
>                                       200   100%        100 100%
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
> 
> Company XY                                                               
> Customer XY
> _____________________________________________________________________________________Page 
> 7 of 10
> 
> 
> 
> I can do that with spss or gess, but can i do that with R?
> Is it looks good with R?
> 
> 

Yes, you can do it in R and you can produce rather nice output for, 
e.g., LaTeX or HTML. So start reading the manuals and just do your work 
with R.

Uwe Ligges