# Help with R

Category: Geeks r Us

## Post 1 by Binary solo (the Zone BBS remains forever my home page) on Friday, 15-Mar-2013 17:28:15

Hi
I'm wondering if any one here has some experience with using the R programming language for statistical analasys and would like to share it with me.
I'm going to take a course in statistics pretty soon so I'm trying to decide if I should try to learn R or just stick with Excel? And
if any one knows about some good learning material on the web, that would be well recieved.

## Post 2 by synthesizer101 (I just keep on posting!) on Saturday, 16-Mar-2013 12:53:37

I have not heard of R. In my limited statistics studies, excel tended to work if I knew exactly what I had to do to each data cell. Is R used mainly for statistics, or is it a full programming language? I say this because I wrote some JAVA programs to do some statistics work for me, but JAVA is not used primarily for statistics.

## Post 3 by Binary solo (the Zone BBS remains forever my home page) on Monday, 18-Mar-2013 7:40:14

On their website the Refer to are as Environment/language. You download some basic software and supposedly are able to build on top of that by adding other packages that you can do more stuff with. My problem is mainly that I'm very inexperienced at working with hard commands, in other words I kind a like user interfaces, and they are something that R lacks hence my post.
My resorces tell me that R is being used by many blind users and with the right fiffs is quite accessible and my awesome resorces also tell me that it is much more powerful than excel when it comes to working with statistics so I'm looking into the posibility of using it.
To try to answer your question:
I'm not an expert but I think it is a sort of limited programming language in that it's mainly designed to work with numbers and vectors and so it's not really like normal programming languages.