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R or other statistical software???
Posted by: O-pos (IP Hidden, New member, 1)
Date: March 20, 2007 10:45AM
Hello,
I'm a physician, a clinicist. I became very interested in statistics, I see more and more often that excel is not enough and decided to learn enough deeply a good statistical program. I reviewed several statistical programs and I stopped on R programming language, because it seemed to me most interesting and useful. But before I start investing lots of my time in learning R, I'd like to ask you what do you think about R and whether you would recommend R or something else? Three important issues to be considered are: 1. How usable is a software for clinicist physician.. 2. I'm engaged in medical research and I often publish the papers in pubmed. Is it ok for high-impact index journals to submit papers where statistical work-up has been done using this certain software (for example, R)? 3. Considering Linux expansion, it would be also very good if this software could work on Linux plattform. So, which program would you recommend? Is R ok?
Re: R or other statistical software???
Posted by: mitolab (IP Hidden, Senior member, 89)
Date: March 23, 2007 04:17PM
Here is a potentially interesting primer for R: [cran.r-project.org]
There are few publications using R language as the framework of their project, like this paper: APE: Analyses of Phylogenetics and Evolution in R language. Bioinformatics. 2004 Jan 22;20(2):289-90. You may find more from pubmed. R works on both windows and unix systems.
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