[R] New links between R and SPSS

Bob Muenchen muenchen.bob at gmail.com
Thu Jul 16 17:31:47 CEST 2009


Hi All,

This week SPSS Inc. announced version 18, which has some very
interesting enhancements regarding R. It will now ship with R on the
DVD, along with the PASW Statistics-R Integration Package. Previously
this required a download of R, and of the Integration Package. This
may be the first time a vendor shipped R itself along with what may be
viewed as a competitor to R.

The second thing they announced is quite intriguing. PASW Statistics
Developer is like PASW (SPSS) Statistics  Base, along with R and
Python, but with the statistics procedures stripped out. This will
allow people to use the PASW Statistics graphical user interface to
create menus and dialog boxes for R and Python programs. The
extensions people write will be shared on
http://www.spss.com/devcentral/. Such extensions could be used by the
non-Developer version of PASW Statistics too.

I think this is a very good thing for both R and SPSS Inc. It adds to
R’s universality and expands PASW Statistics capabilities at the same
time.

Cheers,
Bob Muenchen
http://RforSASandSPSSusers.com




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