[R] two questions for R beginners

[Ralf B]

My biggest blocker was my misconception that R is extremely difficult
to start with. It is powerful and one can do very complicated things (
that consequently turn things  complicated) but it comes with very
nice defaults and one can produce great results with standard tasks in
very little time - especially if one has done programming and/or
scripting before.

I pushed it away for too long that way. I wish I would have used it
years ago and avoided SPSS altogether - must have wasted 100s of hours
doing repetitive tasks by click and partial scripts in SPSS. Not to
mention a horrible license policy and a visualization unit that is
simply embarrassing for a product that is in its 18th or 19th version.

Ralf

On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 1:11 PM, Tal Galili <tal.galili at gmail.com> wrote:
> My biggest stumbling blocks to getting up and running with R was whenever I
> was lazy and impatient.
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> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 7:31 PM, Patrick Burns <pburns at pburns.seanet.com>wrote:
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>> * What were your biggest misconceptions or
>> stumbling blocks to getting up and running
>> with R?
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>> * What documents helped you the most in this
>> initial phase?
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>> I especially want to hear from people who are
>> lazy and impatient.
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>> Feel free to write to me off-list.  Definitely
>> write off-list if you are just confirming what
>> has been said on-list.
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